Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs. This is likely down to new breeding practices ...

The findings demonstrate how strongly humans can influence the evolution of animals. "Charles Darwin assumed that long periods of time—millions of years—are required for major changes to take ...

Researchers review the ever-growing list of human viruses, examining their diversity, transmission pathways, and the urgent ...

This phenomenon demonstrates that human evolution is still ongoing. A new study has found that for the past 10,000 years, populations on the Tibetan Plateau have developed particular adaptations ...

People on the Tibetan Plateau have developed unique physiological traits over 10,000 years to thrive in low-oxygen conditions, preventing hypoxia. A study showed that intermediate hemoglobin ...

a burial that was meant to humiliate a conquered rival even after defeat Eli Wizevich Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same ...

But more evidence in favor of cannibalism began to accumulate when Francesc Marginedas, an archaeologist at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in Spain, found ...

picking up mutations that might lead to human-to-human spread, that "train has already left the station," warns one infectious disease expert. If and when bird flu -- already widespread in cattle ...

There has only been one human case in the UK. The patient is "currently well" and being treated at a high-consequence infectious disease unit to prevent further transmission, the government says.

Paleo-diet advocates like Cordain say that if we stick to the foods our hunter-gatherer ancestors once ate, we can avoid the diseases ... role in the evolution of the human diet.

Getting a plum government gig in Russia is a lot easier if you’ve served in the Kremlin’s presidential bodyguard agency, the Federal Protection Service (bonus points if you’ve saved Vladimir ...