At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every familiar category of life. Yet that is what several research teams now say they ...

For creatures that look nothing like us, fruit flies have been able to teach us a lot about human biology as we’ve studied ...

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 ...

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind initiative combining frontier artificial intelligence and frontier biology to dramatically accelerate scientific ...

DNA from soil could soon reveal who lived in ice age caves, research shows. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The last two decades ...

"First published in the USA by Viking Penguin, 2005"--T.p. verso. Contents Prologue. The power of ideas -- 1. The six epochs -- The intuitive linear view versus the historical exponential view -- The ...