A new analysis argues that this daily work of processing and cooking food helped reshape human bodies and social life. It explores how fire, tools, and cooperation driven by women changed humans’ ...

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection transformed biology and continues to guide modern science, from ...

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The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

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.

For years, evolutionary psychologists and biologists have investigated the idea that the shape of a man’s face can predict his behavior. A specific measurement known as the facial width-to-height ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

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

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

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