Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

New research into Upper Paleolithic fossils from western Eurasia suggests that hybridization between ancient human groups was not a rare side event, but a major force in human evolution. By comparing ...

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

The story of human evolution is far from a straight line — it’s a complex web of species, adaptations, and interconnections.

Angela Pelster is well-recognized in the literary community for her work. On April 14, she published her collection of essays ...