Frequent burn exposure may have driven human genetic adaptations that improve healing but worsen severe injury outcomes.

Why do humans have an appendix? New research is reshaping our understanding of this overlooked organ and its antiquated role ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary journey. According ...

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 ...

Evolutionary biology professor Scott Solomon discusses the long-term implication of the Artemis II mission.

Scientists have long tried to decode every dream we have. Some say it’s survival training, others say it’s memory at work, ...

The study of human evolution and comparative anatomy bridges palaeontology, biomechanics and evolutionary biology to elucidate the origins of our unique anatomy. Recent analyses have shed new light on ...

Mild aggression and lethal violence evolved separately, according to research across 100 primate species. The study ...