At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Ever looked in the mirror and wondered what incredible, and sometimes unsettling, secrets your own body might be holding?

Biologists mapping the human body have long assumed that every major kind of microscopic life inside us already had a place on the tree of life. The discovery of strange RNA-based entities called ...

Fear has a scent. Here’s how this invisible chemical signal has shaped human perceptions, emotions and survival instincts.

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind initiative combining frontier artificial intelligence and frontier biology to dramatically accelerate scientific ...

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...

"First published in the USA by Viking Penguin, 2005"--T.p. verso. Contents Prologue. The power of ideas -- 1. The six epochs -- The intuitive linear view versus the historical exponential view -- The ...

The new evolutionary study found two main reasons for the primate anomaly: to attract mates and to threaten rivals.