Evolution
The earliest humans almost certainly walked upright on two legs but may have struggled to run at even half the speed of modern man, new research...
To think that world domination could have begun in the cheeks. That's one interpretation of a discovery, published online September 9 in Nature...
Behind the sailor's lore of fearsome battles between sperm whale and giant squid lies a deep question of evolution: How did these leviathans develop...
Several genes with strong associations to schizophrenia have evolved rapidly due to selection during human evolution, according to new research in...
Scientists at the University of Rochester and the J. Craig Venter Institute have discovered a copy of the genome of a bacterial parasite residing...
Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have found bonobos and chimpanzees use manual gestures of their hands,...
Is heading straight for a goal the quickest way there? If the name of the game is evolution, suggests new research at the Weizmann Institute of...
When the first four-legged animals sprouted fingers and toes, they took an ancient genetic recipe and simply extended the cooking time, say...
A researcher at the University of Sheffield has discovered that the reason birds learn to fly so easily is because latent memories may have been left...
Men with large jaws, flaring cheeks and large eyebrows are sexy, at least in the eyes of our ancestors, researchers at the Natural History Museum...
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