The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...

Scientists have traced kissing back to early primates, suggesting it began long before humans evolved. Their analysis points to great apes and even Neanderthals sharing forms of kissing millions of ...

Harvard’s Human Evolutionary Biology concentration may soon be known by a different name. In an email to concentrators, Ashley Johnson, the HEB undergraduate program coordinator, wrote that the ...

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

Deep in the rainforests of Peninsular Malaysia, three Indigenous communities known collectively as the Orang Asli have lived ...

Frequent burn exposure may have driven human genetic adaptations that improve healing but worsen severe injury outcomes.

Here's something that'll make your next giggle session feel a bit weird: scientists genuinely can't figure out if your laughter evolved from joyful chimp panting or from the threatening bared-teeth ...

Blushing is one behavior you may have wanted to eliminate completely, but there is a strong, adaptive reason why evolution ...