Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

In evolutionary terms, fitness is defined as an organism's ability to survive and reproduce its genes into the next generation.

While this internal rivalry is usually hard to see, it becomes clearer when it involves genes on the X and Y chromosomes, ...

In evolutionary terms, fitness is defined as an organism's ability to survive and reproduce its genes into the next ...

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

What is going wrong with our world? Why are we suffering so much at individual and societal levels? We've created an alien ...

Tech is evolving too fast for human biology. Mental health trends show we're struggling. To survive, we must speed up ...

There's no question that humans have left an indelible mark on the world, but we're also inadvertently steering the evolution ...

One of the method's applications is to give a more complete sense of human ancestry, says Gideon Bradburd, U-M professor of ecology and evolutionary biology ... notions of the biological essentialism ...

IT WAS AFTER tripping on hallucinogenic mushrooms that Christian Angermayer realised he had a personal mission to help the human race improve itself. Having passed through the “gateway to God ...

"However, some of the genes from the population which contributed a minority of our genetic material, particularly those related to brain function and neural processing, may have played a crucial role ...

MailOnline's graphic below shows this 'hidden chapter' in human evolution spanning from 1.5 million years ago (top) until the modern-day (bottom). For the study, the team used data from the ...