Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both ...

Corrales, a recent biological sciences Ph.D. graduate from the University of Rhode Island, and his advisor, Associate ...

Recent research highlights that for fertility and aging, the egg may be the leading lady, but she needs her supporting cast.

Human biology looks ordinary until you examine what it actually does. Our bodies survive trauma, starvation, infection, and environmental extremes that should kill us. This video explores the hidden ...

Humans may be far more monogamous by nature than previously thought, researchers say. Monogamy in humans is comparable more to the exclusive mating seen in meerkats and beavers than in our primate ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

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LONDON (AP) — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is ...

Set aside your matches or lighter and try to start a fire—chances are you’d be left cold and hungry. But as early as 400,000 years ago, ancient hominins may have had the skills to conjure flame, ...

Soay sheep, native to Scotland, are known for their hardiness and small size—and also for their cheatin’ hearts. The breed earned the dubious distinction of being the least monogamous in a new study ...

Plants have been part of our diet as long as meat has, with new evidence showing that Neanderthals, early Homo sapiens and even earlier Homo hominins were using and processing starches, grass seeds, ...