"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

The brain creates the mind through flexible networks. While science maps this connection, significant questions remain, ...

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Human well-being on a finite planet towards 2100," uses a system dynamics-based modeling approach to explore two future ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have even evolved sophisticated strategies to evade a host’s immune system by avoiding it entirely.

Between 2022 and 2024, the Greater Hartford task force supported 27 children and 22 adults who were human trafficking victims, 94% female and nearly three-quarters victims of sex trafficking.

U.N. systems have played a crucial role in highlighting Beijing’s human rights abuses. Now China’s government is stacking these very bodies with its own mouthpieces.

Swedish biologist and physician Carl Linnaeus was known as the 'father of modern taxonomy' for creating the binomial system, which is still used today. (Nationalmuseum 2004/Wikimedia) ...