What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.

We humans love putting things in boxes. Assigning simple categories makes us feel comfortable – but all too often, biology ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

We’re living in an overly and overtly divisive age. Various groups of people in this country and around the world are deservedly claiming their own cultural turf in the noble pursuit of inclusion. I ...

From NPR News, this is WEEKEND EDITION. I'm Andrea Seabrook. The elephant has its trunk, writes author Chip Walter. Bombardier beetles manufacture and precisely shoot boiling hot toxic chemicals from ...

Scientists are gaining new insights into an extinct South African creature with an intriguing mix of human and apelike traits, and apparently an unusual way of walking. But they still haven’t pinned ...

Dolphins have developed a number of similar personality traits to humans and primates despite evolving in completely different environments, according to new research. The project, which studied 134 ...