Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and immune response.

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

A discovery that contradicts long-held assumptions about how tools were made at the time.

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, according to research.

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

Learn how an ancient fish gene was repurposed to shape the anatomy of human hands.

Living on Mars, humans would experience just 38% the gravity of Earth and would be exposed to much more radiation. These two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...