Why are human babies so helpless? Researchers explore the evolutionary purpose of infant dependency. Learn how the gap between sensory and motor skills in infants fosters human social intelligence and ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...

A study combining the growing number of ancient genomes with those of living people has given us our best picture yet of how humans have evolved over the past 10,000 years or so. It shows that people ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...