Humans lost their ability to synthesize their own vitamin C because our ancestors had access to plenty of fruit.

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Worms radically reorganized their genomes during their move from sea to land, supporting the theory of punctuated equilibrium ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

Scientists reveal that a key evolutionary theory about rapid change is wrong, caused mainly by statistical noise in the data.

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as well ...

An analysis of a 1.5 million-year-old vertebra from a human relative living in what is now Israel suggests that ancient ...

New research suggests that the unique way human placentas produce sex hormones during pregnancy may have been a key driver ...