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 ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

Frequent burn exposure may have driven human genetic adaptations that improve healing but worsen severe injury outcomes.

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists are casting doubt on the headline-making study Birds Make an Alarm Call That ...

The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

Mild aggression and lethal violence evolved separately, according to research across 100 primate species. The study ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...