The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to ...

What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

New research suggests that the unique way human placentas produce sex hormones during pregnancy may have been a key driver ...

The bold question-askers at What If examine how merging with machines could mark the next phase in human evolution.

Cambridge and Oxford researchers propose the placenta drove human evolution by shaping our large, social brains.

Researchers suggest that hormones produced during pregnancy, such as testosterone and estrogen, may have significantly ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

Recent discoveries using lab-grown brain organoids, or "mini-brains," suggest that testosterone increases brain size while ...