Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and immune response.

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.

Living on Mars, humans would experience just 38% the gravity of Earth and would be exposed to much more radiation. These two ...

New research suggests fire was key to making our bodies successful in evolution – but not in the ways we previously thought.

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly ...

Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...

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 ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...