Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new reconstruction (center) of the crushed Yunxian 2 skull (right) found in China is seen with another squashed skull (left) ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Introduction. Human interactions with ecosystems ; Demonstrating causality for human-environmental interactions ; Committee charge and scope of this study -- Existing understanding of the ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

What will humans look like in the future? From stronger bodies to bigger brains, or maybe even merging with machines. Human ...

Could a newly discovered fossil in Egypt fundamentally change everything scientists currently know about human evolution?