Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

More than 1.2 million years ago, our ancestors Homo erectus developed the tools and intellectual capacity to survive in very ...

Dr. Durkin and his colleagues set out to determine exactly what kind of environment Homo erectus lived in a million years ago ...

A new study outlines the ways by which city life may be shaping the evolution of urban coyotes, the highly adaptable carnivores spotted in alleyways from Berkeley, Calif., to the Bronx, in New York.

A recent study involving Central European University (CEU) is paving the way for a new field of research that merges ...

A groundbreaking study has unveiled how Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium often found in humans, evolves and survives, ...

Two months shy of the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic, the US has recorded its first human ...

Blue-throated macaws mimic movements automatically, showing human-like imitation skills. This discovery may help conservation ...

Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help them thrive in different habitats, such as forests and savannahs, according to ...

A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

Through antigenic evolution, viruses such as seasonal influenza evade recognition by neutralizing antibodies. This means that a person with antibodies well tuned to an initial infection will not be ...