Scientists have uncovered new evidence that confirms what many anthropologists have long suspected: interbreeding between ...

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 ...

Among those characteristics targeted for elimination from the human population were such complex ... because eugenics research had shown that the mental and physical conditions of many ...

He experimented on pea plants in an effort to understand how a parent passed physical traits to its offspring. In one experiment, Mendel crossbred a pea plant with wrinkled seeds and a pea plant ...