Ancient bones and DNA reveal that dog diversity and their close relationship with migrating humans developed thousands of ...

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot and killed a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who ...

A new analysis suggests the evolution of human body size was marked by a major turning point rather than gradual growth.

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members of the genera Homo, Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Ardipithecus ).

To understand the roots of how we think about pain today, it helps to go back and see how earlier cultures made sense of it. Zwiebackesser/Shutterstock Pain is one of ...

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Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

Nearly 800,000 years ago, early humans gathered along the shores of a lush lake in what is now northern Israel. Here, they returned again and again, hunting large animals, cooking fish over controlled ...

Millions of neurons branch throughout our bodies, keeping them in close communication with our brains. This peripheral network begins to take shape long before birth, as the cells of a growing embryo ...