Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...