Scientists wanted to know why the chatter of Alston’s singing mice sounds so much like human conversation. What they found ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to herding and companionship. This deliberate shaping of traits has resulted in ...

A glass of milk can still mark a line through humanity. For most adults, drinking it brings discomfort because the body ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

Why do we kiss? The answer involves ancient apes, immune systems and a neurochemical cocktail in the human brain that few can ...

New genetic research is rewriting the human origin story, showing that our species likely evolved from multiple interconnected populations across Africa rather than a single ancestral group. Fossils, ...

Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation based on evolutionary game theory. This result offers a new ...