The human body is a machine whose many parts - from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain - have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of our ...

If the world feels out of control, dystopian, or even apocalyptic, it's possible to change course. The fate of the human species may be at stake!

Humans lost their ability to synthesize their own vitamin C because our ancestors had access to plenty of fruit.

New research revealing that ancient Africa's climate was unexpectedly rainy, challenging previous theories about human ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by ...

The new dating of an object found decades ago in Poland reinforces the idea that early humans in Central Europe had ...