In “The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire,” Gee examines the many reasons why the human race finds itself in multiple ...

The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have ...

This new human species could change the way we view migration ... These insights will likely set the stage for future breakthroughs in paleoanthropology, particularly as new fossils from Asia ...

Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the ...

Colonizing Mars might be the best chance to ensure the human species survival in the future. In order to adapt to Mar’s hostile living conditions, our bodies will evolve in ways that might end ...

Perhaps future studies into these tools and caves surrounding that same area could teach us more about the extinct human species that once roamed our planet, and further explain the origins of ...

Human biological sex is determined by the sex chromosomes X and Y. In most cases, females possess two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y. However, there is some evidence that the Y ...

While an octopus-dominated future may seem ... took advantage of a land species extinction to adapt and evolve," Popular Mechanics said. That would namely be us humans, whose distant ancestors ...

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

Plastic bottles, smartphones, chicken bones – and the wider debris of everyday life – are tipped to outlast human civilisation and become the defining fossils of our age.

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...