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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Hansen's Disease, more commonly known as leprosy, is a chronic disease that can lead to physical impairment. Today it exists ...

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

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

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.