A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are "Neanderthal deserts" in human chromosomes.

A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

“The chin evolved largely by accident and not through direct selection, but as an evolutionary byproduct resulting from direct selection on other parts of the skull,” University of Buffalo biological ...

Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer. An analysis of 38 modern mosquitoes’ DNA suggests an ancestral mosquito species developed a preference for ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a ...

“Dogs like to watch dogs, just like humans like to watch humans,” said Dr. Freya Mowat, a veterinary ophthalmologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an author of the study, which was ...

Roughly 40,000 years ago, humans living in present-day Europe carved a variety of geometric signs into pendants, tools and figurines. Now, according to a new paper in the journal PNAS, researchers ...

Orcas are among the ocean’s top predators, yet there is only one well-documented attack on a human in the wild: in 1972, a surfer was bitten – probably because he was mistaken for a seal – but ...