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

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

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.

As The Jungle Book’s King Louie knows all too well, the ability to control fire is what sets humans apart from apes, fueling ...

New research suggests fire was key to making our bodies successful in evolution – but not in the ways we previously thought.

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

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 ...

Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...