Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and ...

Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...

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

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

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Living on Mars, humans would experience just 38% the gravity of Earth and would be exposed to much more radiation. These two ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

Did you know humans might have had a third eye, if it weren't for evolution? A common misconception is that evolution is a ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

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 evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly ...