As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human biology is struggling to keep pace. Many of the chronic stress-related health ...

One of the most popular explanations for why menopause evolved in some species is called the grandmother hypothesis. Essentially, older females stop having offspring of their own, and redirect energy ...

Harvard’s Human Evolutionary Biology concentration may soon be known by a different name. In an email to concentrators, Ashley Johnson, the HEB undergraduate program coordinator, wrote that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gayani Senevirathne (left) holds the shorter, wider human pelvis, which evolved from the longer upper hipbones of primates, which ...

In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to recognize a less admirable trait of Homo sapiens—self-centeredness. The human ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary ...

Evolution is perhaps the most extraordinary story ever told—a tale spanning billions of years that connects every living thing on Earth through an intricate ...

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

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.

What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter ...