What can singing mice say about human speech?

Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand ...

Are Humans The Only Animals That Kiss? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains

Why do we kiss? The answer involves ancient apes, immune systems and a neurochemical cocktail in the human brain that few can ...
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Humans are still undergoing natural evolution

It would be tempting to believe that human evolution has slowed since our ancestors left Africa 300,000 years ago. Yet a new ...
BGR

Are Humans Still Evolving? Here's What Anthropologists Say

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

Why Can’t Humans Regrow Limbs? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains

Salamanders regrow entire limbs. We share their evolutionary blueprint. So why can’t humans do the same? The answer ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Humans Are Still Evolving. Natural Selection Has Favored Genes Linked to Red Hair and Less Male-Pattern Baldness, a Study Suggests

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

In 1921, a miner’s dynamite blast in Zambia unearthed a face that rewrote the map of human evolution

Miners in Zambia unearthed the Broken Hill skull in 1921, a fossil initially baffling scientists with its mix of modern and ...
Natural History Museum

Evolution of ancient humans may have been influenced by malaria

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