Humans lost their ability to synthesize their own vitamin C because our ancestors had access to plenty of fruit.

Wild tomatoes in the Galápagos may be reversing evolution—reawakening ancient traits, surprising scientists at UC Riverside.

New research suggests that the unique way human placentas produce sex hormones during pregnancy may have been a key driver ...

Humans have been around on Earth for thousands of years, but there was a period when humanity was almost wiped out of ...

On the younger, black-rock islands of the Galápagos archipelago, wild-growing tomatoes are doing something peculiar. They're ...

Religious beliefs have been woven into the fabric of human existence for millennia, shaping cultures and guiding personal ...

Some species have been known to circle back to lost traits, but it's rare and not usually though the same genetic lines.

While some of these women have officially earned their crowns in the Disney princess canon, other heroines like Elsa from Frozen (2013) and Mirabel from Encanto (2021) have essentially become honorary ...

Found in 1933 by a worker in northeastern China and hidden in a well for the rest of the 20th century, the 146,000-year-old fossil could belong to a hominin relative closer to modern humans than ...

Four Trinity researchers have secured awards worth a combined total of €2.57 million under Research Ireland’s Pathway funding programme.

While evolution sculpted H. luzonensis into a small form ... that date to between 118,000 and 194,000 years old—or at least 60,000 years older than the island's oldest known modern humans.