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Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...

All of us are familiar with the 5 traditional senses, but according to a recent study, we may actually have a new sense right ...

Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

It would be easy to envy bats, bears and hedgehogs their seasonal torpor, but research has suggested that humans once ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...