Like other species, we are the products of millions of years of adaptation. Now we're taking matters into our own hands.

Recent discoveries of fossilized footprints have provided intriguing evidence that suggests pre-human species were more ...

Micronutrients, minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution more than ...

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of our ...

While the Vatican acknowledges stages of technological development, it lacks a model of integrating science and religion that can adequately assess the influence of technology. The Vatican's approach, ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...