A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease ...

The scientific wonderers at What If fast-forward through millions of years of primate development to show the path that led ...

Scientists previously thought only a handful of genes showed signs of selection in recent human evolution, but previous ...

Through fossilized tooth enamel, scientists are reconstructing the diets and landscapes that existed millions of years ago.

A modest rise in summer temperatures may have been enough to bring humans back to post-ice-age Britain centuries earlier than ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

An unidentified man was killed as he tried to cross a major Bronx highway early Saturday, police said. The victim was crossing the westbound lanes of the Bruckner Expressway near the White Plains Road ...

WASHINGTON — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that ...

SD: Yeah, and so here’s the twist. For most of human history, people didn’t need braces. AC: Which is wild. SD: So wild. It’s not that ancient humans had better dentists or just, you know, put up with ...

Early interactions tend to carry more information than people realize. The way someone shows up in the beginning, when things are still new and relatively easy, often reflects patterns that will ...