“Among the Baga people in Guinea, this mask of the Nimba figure celebrates women and fertility,” says Ezeluomba. “It has a ...

Lock eyes with a chimpanzee, and you will notice something is missing. The tissue surrounding their iris, called the sclera, ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

You walk into a room and suddenly feel every eye on you. Before you can even process what is happening, warmth rushes to your ...

Blushing is one behavior you may have wanted to eliminate completely, but there is a strong, adaptive reason why evolution ...

Evolution occurs over millennia. Climate change is moving far faster. Scientists are working to close the gap.

Wisdom teeth are more than just an uncomfortable dentist appointment. They are evidence of how human evolution cherry-picked ...

A 16,000-year-old skull found in southern China has been digitally reconstructed, offering a rare look at the face of an ...

From her studies, Fiona concluded that the relative absence of creepy-crawlies was the biggest reason chimpanzees build nests ...

Melania Trump wrote an op-ed in support of AI in schools, published on April 4, stating that students, teachers and families ...