Newly discovered genetic adaptations have major relevance to the health of modern day human populations all over the world ...

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

There’s a theory that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” The idea is that Homo sapiens and a cousin species once bred, ...

Does a male bird with a long and complex courtship dance have superior cognitive abilities? Simply put, is a talented dancer ...

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 ...

A modest rise in summer temperatures may have been enough to bring humans back to post-ice-age Britain centuries earlier than ...

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 ...

The most powerful programming language today isn’t written in code editors. It’s natural language. In this article, I’ll ...

Your Ancestors’ Diet May Have Changed How Well You Can Smell In A Nutshell A genetic study found that Negrito ...

Archaeologists unearthed 430,000-year-old wooden tools in Greece, pushing back the timeline of sophisticated human ...

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