A University of Montpellier study published on September 1st in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported ...

In the largest study of its kind, scientists have accurately documented the massive change in animal morphology over the last ...

Since the Middle Ages, the size of wild and domestic animals has largely been shaped by human selection: domestic animals are ...

There’s a problem with that “March of Progress” picture that’s so often used to illustrate our species’ development: it ends. Human evolution, the image implies, began in apehood and finishes here, ...

Meanwhile, humans favored and therefore bred larger domestic animals for the products they provide. Larger sheep produce more ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter ...

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other species.