evolution of human beings. See my story on this, posted this afternoon. The gist of the paper is that our friends tend to resemble us genetically more you’d expect by random chance. This goes ...

Marine fisheries have always provided crucial sustenance to human beings, but many of the most ... Fenner, beginning in the 1940s and 50s, of the evolution of reduced virulence in the myxoma ...

The human body does not welcome an injection of horse serum. Ajit Varki discovered this when, as a young San Diego doctor in 1984, he administered some to a woman with bone-marrow failure.

And yet, even in the current literature about human origins that we do have, the end point of evolution is often depicted as a white man carrying a spear. This image not only eliminates our ...

Perhaps we haven't stopped after all. Broadly speaking, evolution simply means the gradual change in the genetics of a population over time. From that standpoint, human beings are constantly evolving ...

At the risk of being branded a futurist myself ... Well actually we have a pretty good case study from recent human evolution that suggests just these sorts of changes could happen in the not ...

Where do we come from and how did we evolve into the beings and bodies we are today? The new book "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution" argues for a better ...

"It suggests that the evolution of complex life may be less ... lifespan of the sun -- and therefore the likelihood of human-like beings beyond Earth is extremely low. In the new study, a team ...

But predicting evolution is, if anything, even more precarious. Combining the two involves considerable speculation, and the very strong possibility of being wrong. At the risk of being wrong, my ...