Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

A new study shows the virus could have doubled the frequency of genetic variants in a South African province if effective ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme ...

A pioneering project led by researchers from the University of Stirling and the Max Planck Institute has opened the door for ...

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

This is follow up to prior posts criticizing a subset of scholars who use evolutionary theory, those identified with Evolutionary Psychology (capital letters), an offspin from sociobiology whose ...