Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

Modern comforts promise ease, yet a growing body of research suggests our bodies are still tuned for a very different world. Instead of thriving, many of us are developing chronic illnesses, fertility ...

Ancient DNA reveals that childhood viruses lived with humans for thousands of years, reshaping how we understand human and ...

Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But new ...

Lead exposure has been thought to be a uniquely modern phenomenon. Exposure to lead by ancient humans could have given modern humans a survival advantage over other species – more specifically, their ...

While life emerged around 4 billion years ago, human history—from the earliest humans approximately 2.5 million years ago to the present day—represents a relatively short period in the scale of ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.