Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and ...

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.

As The Jungle Book’s King Louie knows all too well, the ability to control fire is what sets humans apart from apes, fueling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly ...

Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...