Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical ...

In most developing tissues, signals called morphogens act like lighthouses, guiding nearby cells toward their fate and ...

Why do no two human faces look quite the same? Although we all follow the same biological blueprint, our features—the curve ...

Neanderthals are usually seen as brutish and primitive, but research now suggests our ancestors kissed often - and even with ...

Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large apes, according to the ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and ...

Over time, we have developed - and continue to develop - the traits that help us survive and flourish in the environments ...

Evolutionary biologists have been investigating the evolutionarily origins of kissing by taking a broad look at behaviour in ...

How much influence did humans really have on the enormous variety of today’s dog breeds? An analysis of dog skulls from the last 50,000 years brings surprising insights to light: As early as 11,000 ...

We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you ...

Scientists found that kissing likely originated millions of years ago in great apes and was shared by early human relatives, ...

Our brain’s evolution makes it nearly impossible to commit to a multi-generational mission like interstellar travel, says one ...