Microbes profoundly impact evolution, shaping traits alongside genes. Holobiont biology highlights how hosts and microbes ...

Kissing is a big part of human bonding and social connection and associated with the release of oxytocin and dopamine. Here ...

A new book shows that human dads have evolved to be important members of their kids’ caretaking team — a fact that makes them ...

Considering how long humans have been on Earth, it’s surprising that we have been scientifically studying our evolution for only 200 years ... which are the most ape-like in anatomy. Fossils of ...

A trending claim is that human-AI coevolution is underway and will expand. AI shapes humans, humans shape AI. Good or bad?

A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single organism, having all descended from a single ...

A look through hundreds of previous studies – on everything from modern human anatomy and physiology to measures of the ...

Fossil teeth challenge the idea that large brains drove extended childhood, suggesting cultural transmission shaped human evolution.

The temporal lobe—a key area of our brain responsible for our memory and communication—could also reveal hidden clues about ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

Professor Tim Coulson, a professor of Zoology and former head of Biology at Oxford University, has shared his thoughts on ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...