New research uncovers how evolution and improved living conditions are accelerating men's growth more than women's.

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

Lucy, an early human ancestor, could run upright but much slower than modern humans. New simulations show that muscle and ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

This month the U.S. had its first human death tied to H5N1 ... Those same workers take foot baths so their shoes don’t risk introducing bird flu to the flock. The birds are also blood ...

One particularly notable one was called Eve’s footprint, due to the fact it was deemed to be a female human foot – the print of which was left around 117,000 years ago. Due to the range of ...

Dines started his journey at midnight on January 1, 2024. The effort started strong when he surpassed the record for most human-powered vertical feet skied in a month at the end of January 2024 with a ...

This study underscores that the evolution of human intelligence likely involved coordinated changes across all brain cell types, not just neurons. Our brain is arguably the organ that most ...

The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dennis Joshy et al. 2024. Accelerated cell-type-specific regulatory evolution of the human brain. PNAS 121 (52): ...

Which led me to ask: how might human evolution be altered by interactions with a world of rich AI diversity? In a paper just published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, I considered the many ways AI ...

which contained human remains, was submerged in 10 feet of water. The remains are being sent to MUSC in Charleston for an autopsy. No information on the person’s identity has been revealed at ...