Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and immune response.

These papers were first presented as a symposium at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, Dec. 27, 1953. They were published in the Sept. 1954 issue of ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays in aiding digestion, maintaining strong teeth and defending against oral disease. However, the evolution of ...

Recent investigations into primate behaviour have underscored the importance of cultural evolution — the process by which behaviours and skills are socially transmitted and refined over successive ...

Here's something that'll make your next giggle session feel a bit weird: scientists genuinely can't figure out if your ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

It’s a common mistake to think we came directly from the monkeys or chimps you see at the zoo today, […] ...

Stories centered around true love's kiss might be tales as old as time. And, according to a new study, kisses might even have been around before humans walked the earth. Humans kiss each other ...