Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

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

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.

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

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

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

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 ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the answer may be in a surprising twist of evolutionary fate: one of the brain’s ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

Learn how an ancient fish gene was repurposed to shape the anatomy of human hands.

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An ...