I uncover unsettling facts about human biology and the limits of the body.

Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

Early mammalian ancestors were nocturnal, sleeping during the day while the dinosaurs dominated the land. However, some mammalian lineages, including human ancestors, independently transitioned to ...

Neanderthal males had a tendency to mate with human females, new research suggests.

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Long ago, Neanderthals and modern humans interbred. But among Neanderthals, their modern human blood came mostly from their ...

Antibody therapies are changing the treatment of cancer, inflammatory diseases and infections. However, many promising drug ...

While humans lose muscle within weeks of inactivity, brown bears preserve muscle during hibernation, offering clues for maintaining our muscle health.

A single exposure to a toxic fungicide during pregnancy can increase epigenetic disease risk for 20 subsequent generations.

HANOI: Vietnamese scientists have, for the first time, successfully decoded mitochondrial genomes from ancient human bone samples dating back around 2,000 years, marking a significant breakthrough in ...