New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

This overview traces the evolutionary timeline from the great apes to modern humans, explaining where hominids and hominins ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have ...

A study of women and girls in a part of South Africa with high levels of HIV infection has shown that the virus has the ...

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has selected for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV in humans, according to a new study.

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...

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The human gastrointestinal tract is in a constant state of flux; it hosts a diverse and dynamic community of microbes known as the gut microbiome, and is constantly exposed to things in the ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Angela Pelster is well-recognized in the literary community for her work. On April 14, she published her collection of essays ...