In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

The uvula is nearly unique to humans among mammals. An evolutionary biologist unpacks competing theories for why we evolved ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

Many people believe that we humans have conquered nature through the wonders of civilization and technology. Some also believe that because we are different from other creatures, we have complete ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...

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Neanderthals were more susceptible to lead poisoning than humans — which helped us gain an advantage over our cousins, scientists say Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million ...

Neanderthal toddlers grew faster than modern humans, probably because of the harsh environment they evolved in A new study of a Neanderthal toddler reveals that our closest evolutionary relatives' ...