Discover what sets human culture apart from animals, as evolutionary insights challenge old beliefs and reveal our unique ...

Why is human culture—the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations—so much more powerful than animal cultures?

A new study proposes that human culture’s unique power lies not in its ability to accumulate knowledge, as once thought, but ...

Complicated births may not have arisen in humans as a trade-off between our need for big brains and pelvises suitable for ...

Human-driven bird extinctions over the last 130,000 years have cut avian functional diversity and erased 3 billion years of ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered “hominin” group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct interbreeding ...

If we became crab-like it would be a slightly horrifying experience, an expert tells us. Crabs molt their entire outer exoskeleton, from their eyes to their gut.

Researchers may have found the clearest example yet of human-induced evolution, thanks to deforestation in New Zealand.

The development of primate brains is shaped by various inputs. However, these inputs differ between independent breeders, ...

Humans are not yet done cooking. We're continuing to evolve and adjust to the world around us, the records of our adaptations written in our bodies. We know that there are some environments that ...

The kiss has been a versatile way by which humans across civilisations and societies have shown affection, intimacy, or social bonding, most often in a way that is regulated by cultural conventions.