A study of 225 newborns suggests prenatal estrogen may have played a role in the evolution of larger human brains. Boys with ...

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

Ancient bones and DNA reveal that dog diversity and their close relationship with migrating humans developed thousands of ...

Turns out, one of the world's oldest staple foods may have done more than keep people fed.

Research co-authored by an Oklahoma Museum of Natural History curator, her graduate student and an international team of ...

Movement defines life across the animal kingdom. From a fish cutting through water to a bird taking flight, muscles power ...

Genomic analysis of ancient and modern human DNA has exposed a striking pattern in how Neanderthal genes entered the human ...