Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

As The Jungle Book’s King Louie knows all too well, the ability to control fire is what sets humans apart from apes, fueling ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and immune response.

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

A self-proclaimed healthcare futurist, Jeffrey Charles Hardy, says that after millions of years, human evolution has stalled out. He believes we are in a state of suspended evolution before the second ...

Living on Mars, humans would experience just 38% the gravity of Earth and would be exposed to much more radiation. These two ...

Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An ...

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly ...