Frequent burn exposure may have driven human genetic adaptations that improve healing but worsen severe injury outcomes.

Early human relatives experienced risky childbirth due to pelvic shape, revealing deep evolutionary roots of birth difficulty.

Is wittiness a kind of fitness? Ljiljana Progovac explores the idea that quick-wittedness—using and combining words in a ...

Evolutionary biology professor Scott Solomon discusses the long-term implication of the Artemis II mission.

A fossil discovered in Egypt could reshape our understanding of human ancestry and evolution, revealing a previously unknown species ...

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 ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

Live Science spoke with Herman Pontzer, an evolutionary anthropologist and author of the book "Adaptable," about the science of human diversity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Our bodies are not perfectly designed, but are a living archive of evolution. Anatomy reveals a historical record of ...

As climate change outpaces the ability of ecosystems to adapt, scientists are turning to conservation genomics to guide ...