As The Jungle Book’s King Louie knows all too well, the ability to control fire is what sets humans apart from apes, fueling ...

New research suggests fire was key to making our bodies successful in evolution – but not in the ways we previously thought.

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

A study of a handful of 300,000-year-old teeth revealed an ancient human group had a mix of archaic and modern tooth features. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical traces in fossil teeth. Experiments suggest this exposure may have driven ...

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 ...

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 four billion years of our ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

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