Scientists in Japan and Australia have shown that iron deficiency during pregnancy can cause a complete sex reversal in ...

Figure 1: Homo floresiensis in the context of the evolution and dispersal of the genus Homo. Could LB1 be a pygmy H. sapiens? Again, no. Compared with a human skull scaled to less than a third of ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...

Renuka Shahane talks about using animation to explore the emotional realities of women in traditional Indian families. Trending. Life + Culture. Opinion.

To get a sense of when this diversity cropped up during human evolution, the researchers also compared the DNA of modern humans to that of a Neanderthal individual and of a Denisovan, another ...

Humans that call the Tibetan Plateau home are evolving right before our eyes, and scientists are watching as it happens.