Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, ...

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...

Malaria breakthrough as scientists find drug makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes (cloned) - Researchers say the drug is ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

With pollen and common ditch grass seed found both in the footprints and within the same layer of hardened mud in which the ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...

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Research in Honduras shows that humans began selecting for larger fruits with thicker rinds as early as 7,500 years ago—long ...

Several states — like Arkansas and Michigan — have implemented explicit bans on all forms of human cloning.

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...