One intractable problem with racial classifications was that the differences in human physical traits were tiny, so scientists struggled to use them to differentiate between groups. The pioneering ...

A fossilized mandible discovered in Taiwan has been identified as belonging to a Denisovan, an enigmatic group of ancient ...

Slightly over half of all biological/physical anthropologists today ... why I am the way I am and that these traits are useful and good." A human-variation course with another perspective would ...

But we are only one character in the story of human evolution. To truly understand who we are, we must look at how we got here and the key physical traits that make us human. The ability of humans to ...

The human body evolved over eons, slowly calibrating to the African savanna on which 98 percent of humankind lived and died. So, too, did the human brain. Evolutionary psychology is the study of ...

As genetics allows us to turn the tide on human disease, it's also granting the power to engineer desirable traits into humans. What limits should we create as this technology develops?