"Today, your wellbeing is determined less and less by your personal biology and more and more by the cultural systems that ...

The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every corner of the world, and can thrive in deserts, tropical rainforests and even ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Beneficial mutations happen quite frequently, but the world changes too fast for them to stick.

The human lie isn’t a flaw so much as a feature, one that evolution spent hundreds of millions of years perfecting.

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme ...

In the 1890s, Eugène Dubois conducted pivotal excavations in Java that unearthed Java Man, a groundbreaking fossil that ...

After back-to-back dominant wins yesterday, the Ducks were in for a battle against No. 1 UCLA with the Big Ten Tournament Championship on the... Oregon baseball’s power surge continued in the second ...

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