Researchers found genetic differences that likely resulted from humans killing aggressive bears, leaving docile individuals ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.