What does race mean? Are cultural notions about it firmly rooted in biology, especially genetics, or is race primarily a social construction built on a few superficial characteristics superimposed on ...

Neanderthal toddlers grew faster than modern humans, probably because of the harsh environment they evolved in A new study of a Neanderthal toddler reveals that our closest evolutionary relatives' ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...