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

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

Modern human beings are the ultimate apex species, exerting dominance over our environment in a way that no other animal ever ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

The morphogenesis of brain folding patterns across species is studied by physical gel models, simulations, and a quantitative morphometric analysis.

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...