A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is ...

Globally, autism affects about 1 in 100 children, according to the World Health Organization. In the U.S., the rate is closer ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Micronutrients, minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution more than ...

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

Micronutrients, vitamins and minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely ...

The human gastrointestinal tract is in a constant state of flux; it hosts a diverse and dynamic community of microbes known as the gut microbiome, and is constantly exposed to things in the ...