Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

A longstanding question in evolutionary biology is how sexual selection influences how entire genomes develop. Sexual ...

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Expert from Jersey Law Commission shares the findings of a review into law passed in 2000. The UN human rights chief says it is time Iran "stems this ever-swelling tide of executions". The ...

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Excavations have found that the brain of what seems to be a human male contained dark glass formed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The effect can't be explained by lava ...

Myanmar is mired in one of the world’s worst human rights crises, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday, describing conditions there as “a litany of human suffering.” ...

The images above depict artificially-derived neurons grown in petri dishes, with a human neuron shown on the left. Artificially-derived chimpanzee neurons grow only one or two neurites (connecting ...

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Health and Human Services issued new guidance that recognizes only two sexes. Some major medical associations are pushing back against the Department of Health and Human Services' updated ...