A new study warns modern life may undermine key human survival traits, from fertility to cognition, as environmental ...

Neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin spoke to Live Science about how human consciousness evolved.

Complex life began to develop earlier, and over a longer span of time, than previously believed, a new study has revealed.

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable result of a series of unlikely evolutionary leaps. But new research by ...

Why do you have five fingers? Why not ten, or twenty, or one? Why do so many animals have five fingers? Five seems to be the perfect number for most hands. Oddly, the first vertebrates to come onto ...

Paleorex is back on Bored Panda with his detailed, science-based creatures, showing us how animals like big cats, birds, and reptiles might evolve in the future. In this article, we’re featuring even ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult ...