Many mountain gorillas keep living - vigorous and socially engaged - for a decade or more beyond the years of reproduction.

Over the course of our long, complicated evolutionary history, humans have seen our brains triple in size, now weighing in at roughly three pounds on average. At some point along the way, humans ...

Across the animal kingdom, males and females rarely live the same length of time and this difference has fascinated ...

The slow maturation of human children—often viewed as burdensome in modern parenting—is, in fact, a remarkable evolutionary achievement. Unlike other species, humans remain biologically immature and ...

In the quest to create better options for couples facing infertility, scientists have been racing to create eggs and sperm in a laboratory dish. A study published Tuesday in Nature Communications from ...

As climate change heats up the planet, there's a question burning in scientists' minds. ROB MEADE: Basically, how hot is too hot for humans to survive for long periods? SHAPIRO: That's Harvard ...

How did Homo sapiens manage to leave Africa around 50,000 years ago, when earlier treks out of the continent had ended in failure? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...