The evolutionary case for eating meat is etched into human anatomy — but so is the case against it. The science deserves more ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist ...

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

Scientists say they've made a key breakthrough that would allow robots to figure out complex tasks on their own, but experts ...

The prospect of human habitation on the Moon is becoming increasingly feasible, with plans for a permanent presence by 2030.