Summary: Researchers found that Italian brown bears living near humans evolved unique genetic and behavioral traits. The study suggests that prolonged human presence can quietly reshape how wild ...

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

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new University of Cambridge study that includes a table ranking ...

Humans are not well adapted to live in modern cities—and this may be having a big impact on our health and wellbeing. This is the claim of evolutionary scientists from Loughborough University, England ...

In a startling first, a Washington state man has been infected with a strain of bird flu previously only detected in animals. The “severely ill” man was hospitalized with a high fever, confusion and ...

Aranya Sahay’s feature “Humans in the Loop” has received the Film Independent Sloan Distribution Grant as the film officially qualifies for Academy Awards consideration. The grant, administered by ...

The patient is an older adult with underlying health conditions. A Washington state resident has tested positive for bird flu, marking the first human case confirmed in the U.S. in nine months. The ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

Indian filmmakers Kiran Rao and Biju Toppo have joined as executive producers on “Humans in the Loop,” the Fipresci India Grand Prix-winning feature about an indigenous Adivasi woman working as an AI ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...