Thinking about human appearance far into the future tends to drift into science fiction, but the question is rooted in real science. Human bodies have never been fixed. They have shifted with climate, ...

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.

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

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

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

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Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins. By Franz Lidz Researchers on Wednesday ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

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 ...

One of the most important questions in human evolution concerns the identity of the first human to leave Africa. A new study, however, fundamentally challenges the central role traditionally ...