New secrets from our past have been coming out in droves.

The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be ...

Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, ...

Scientists uncovered DNA from two mysterious human ancestors hidden in modern genomes, revealing new clues about our ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

Human biology is the study of all aspects of the human organism including evolution, genetics, ecology, anatomy and physiology, development, anthropology, and nutrition, among others. A deep ...

Every cell in the body contains essentially the same DNA, yet a brain cell behaves differently from a muscle cell or an ...

This year—2021—has been a year of progress in overcoming the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on human evolution research. With some research projects around the world back up and running, we wanted ...

After all, every other human right assumes there is a self there to hold it. And that makes cognitive selfhood something more ...

Human factors (also referred to as human factors psychology and human factors engineering) is an applied field of study that examines human abilities, limitations, behaviors, and processes in order to ...