The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

Humans change the urban landscape with religious, cultural and political activities, which in turn can influence the ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to ...

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 ...

New research suggests that the unique way human placentas produce sex hormones during pregnancy may have been a key driver ...

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What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

Researchers suggest that hormones produced during pregnancy, such as testosterone and estrogen, may have significantly ...

Cambridge and Oxford researchers propose the placenta drove human evolution by shaping our large, social brains.