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 ...

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

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 ...

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

New research suggests fire was key to making our bodies successful in evolution – but not in the ways we previously thought.

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

Most people were taught a simple image: monkeys slowly turning into humans. That’s not how evolution works. Humans didn’t evolve from modern monkeys — we share a common ancestor with them, and if you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...