Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic ...

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is ...

Playing a complex guitar solo ought to be impossible. To elicit the desired torrent of notes, the fingers of one hand must move nimbly around the fretboard, while the other hand plucks the strings, in ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being relatively warm and stable to cold and chaotic, as continental ice sheets ...

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there. By Carl Zimmer One of ...

IF TIMING IS everything, then Thomas Hartung picked a bad moment to make his move. Dr Hartung is an environmental toxicologist at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, who has spent his career ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...