Body hair has long been wrapped in myth, stereotype, and cultural judgment. Some populations are routinely described as ...

A new analysis of these primordial bones offers evidence that Sahelanthropus was our first known ancestor to regularly walk on two feet, a sign that bipedalism evolved early in our lineage.

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

What began in 2023 as a playful Q&A with ChatGPT 3.5 has become an annual exercise that tracks the accelerating pace of AI’s ...

A novel iLDS statistic uncovers adaptive gene sweeps in gut bacteria, highlighting evolutionary responses to modern diets and enhancing microbiome studies.

Kenya is increasingly grappling with organised transnational crime, an evolution that risks turning the country into a haven ...

With no humans to leave behind scraps, this urban bird evolved and developed a longer beak, which shrank again once people ...

Thirteen years after launching the original Digital Factics Twitter, Basil C. Puglisi returns with a comprehensive framework for the platform’s new era This book replaces guesswork with measurable ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Bite force, a measure of the strength of an animal's bite, helps researchers understand a species' role in the ecosystem.

Human evolution is explained through branching lineages rather than a simple linear progression. Fossils, genetics, and ...