The fossil find suggests that the closest ancestors to modern apes may have emerged in northern Africa rather than what was ...

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 ...

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

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 ...

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic ...

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 4 billion years of our ...