Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically exposed to lead ...

Humans have been living alongside malaria for tens of thousands of years. New research is showing that the disease may have shaped how our own species evolved and eventually spread out of Africa and ...

Check out this collection of clips about human evolution. You'll find out the answers to questions like, 'Are humans still evolving?' and 'How are we related to living apes?' Present day humans look ...

It is a scientific mystery why 90% of people are right-handed. A study compared human handedness with that of 41 ape species ...

HUMANS were born, almost literally, of fire and ice. Periods of wildly changing climate seem to have driven some of the major evolutionary steps that made us who we are. The ways in which climate ...

Learn how early humans evolved at a much faster rate than other apes, adapting larger brains as they developed new ways to socialize. Skull diversity across great apes (orange) and gibbons (blue).

Where exactly in Africa our species evolved is one of the hottest points of contention in human evolution. Now a new study suggests Homo sapiens emerged in a single region in the south of the ...

The incredible story of our evolution from ape ancestors spans 6 million years or more, and features the acquirement of traits from bipedal walking, large brains, hairlessness, tool-making, hunting ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when ...