FRIEDRICH ENGELS’S essay on the origins of our species is today recognised as a foundational text, not just of Marxism, but of today’s physical and social anthropology.Like most of Engels’s ...

Whoever’s filming can barely hold the camera steady because it’s just too dang cute. Whether it’s online or in person, we’ve ...

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

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

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

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

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

Humans carry a surprising relic from deep evolutionary history, one that traces back to a tiny, one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago. New findings on eye evolution highlight how ...

Researchers identified an early mammal ancestor whose eggs may have helped it survive the Great Dying 250 million years ago.

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The ...

While both sides have solid arguments in the dogs versus cats debate, one thing cat fans have to concede is that when one ...