For a long time, having children has been a young person’s game. Although ancient records are sparse, researchers estimate that, for most of human history, women most typically conceived their first ...

A glass of milk can still mark a line through humanity. For most adults, drinking it brings discomfort because the body ...

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...

Some 4,000 years ago, as ancient civilizations such as the Minoans in Crete and the Neo-Sumerian Empire in Mesopotamia were shaping cultures in Europe and the Middle East, human biology itself was ...

"If reproduction is ever to occur beyond Earth, it must do so with a clear commitment to safety, transparency and ethical integrity." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

As commercial spaceflight draws ever closer and time spent in space continues to extend, the question of reproductive health beyond the bounds of planet Earth is no longer theoretical but now ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act on.

There is a growing idea in evolutionary biology that human ageing might not just be a modern biological process. Instead, it may be rooted in a very ancient survival strategy shaped millions of years ...