Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

In Nepal’s Upper Mustang, near the southern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, life unfolds in some of the thinnest air on Earth. Oxygen levels are around 60% of what most humans are used to breathing.

Where do we come from and how did we evolve into the beings and bodies we are today? The new book "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution" argues for a better ...

What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter ...

While giving many benefits, aspects of modern society can also be harmful to our physical, mental, and cultural health. We can overcome many of these detriments if we better understand and express our ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...