Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everything that is alive today has evolved, including human beings. Our ancestors evolved many traits that helped them survive in ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

To Shakespeare's Hamlet, we humans are "the paragon of animals." But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution's greatest achievement. For example, humans ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our species than most would think.

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

Today I return to the question I asked in my May post: what would neuroscientists say about the idea that dancing evolved as a practice for helping people exercise the very capacity that enabled them ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our species ...

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution’s greatest achievement.