The human body is an amazing thing, but there's no doubt that it's also capable of some pretty gross stuff. There's a reason ...

Tech is evolving too fast for human biology. Mental health trends show we're struggling. To survive, we must speed up adaptation—culturally, mentally, and structurally.

Human activities such as agriculture, logging, and urbanization are increasingly encroaching on the habitats of great apes.

Are you lactose intolerant? Many people are. In fact, the ability to digest lactose may be an example of adaptive evolution in the human lineage. Although the study of natural selection in humans ...

Investigating the signatures of natural selection can help elucidate the evolutionary adaptations that have allowed humans to withstand some of our most complex and challenging selective agents.

But is this an innate mammalian preference, or just a human adaptation? Harold McGee, author of the definitive On Food and Cooking, thinks there’s an inherent appeal in the taste of cooked food ...

Ancient DNA has been successfully extracted and analysed from 35,000 year-old human remains from Europe 2. The good preservation of the DNA we retrieved from Cheddar Man is unusual, but not unexpected ...

Wild animals that have acquired adaptations to maximize their reproductive output in some of the world's most extreme ...

These include the same genes involved in resistance and adaptation to malaria in humans. The evidence of local genetic adaptation identified here has important implications for chimpanzee ...

Suppose we do not accelerate human adaptation. If that is the case, the divide between our world and our capacity to navigate it will become unbridgeable. We already observe early warning signs ...