Spring was starting to pop out -- my favorite time of the year, and I was a bit disappointed in myself for not getting off ...

How did a plant revered as a sacred medicine by Indigenous peoples across the Americas become one of the leading causes of death in contemporary society? Mario Zimmermann, assistant clinical professor ...

Expiration is the mechanism by which options fulfill their purpose which is the transfer and resolution of risk over a ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

Did humans lose their sense of smell? A study on the Orang Asli people reveals that hunter-gatherers maintain ancestral smell genes for foraging, while farmers' olfactory receptors evolved alongside ...

From the ability to detect the smell of wet soil to the scent of ripe fruit, the human olfactory system has evolved over ...

The sounds made by sperm whales are “one of the closest parallels” in the animal kingdom to the language of humans, a study ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...

Humans carry a surprising relic from deep evolutionary history, one that traces back to a tiny, one-eyed ancestor that lived ...

Another complication is that sustained genetic variation does not emerge exclusively as a result of natural selection.

Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and ...