The world never runs out of mysteries, but as adults we just stop paying attention to them. That is why reading through this ...

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species toward better-suited traits for survival in their environments. But this ...

The 2025 Oregon women’s volleyball season was defined by transition, featuring a first-year head coach and a completely overhauled roster.... Ahead of last season, the Oregon women’s volleyball ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

For decades, the human brain was like some evolutionary skyscraper: ancient instincts on the bottom, emotions in the middle, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Humans uniquely cannot breathe and swallow simultaneously, ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act on. There’s something unsettling about the fact that the human body starts ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...

According to a National Center for Science Education survey from last year, eight out of 10 Americans agree that this theory ...