FAIRVIEW PARK, Ohio -- Bird beaks, primates and robotic hands are components of a new Fairview High School freshman biology project involving the effects of climate change on evolution. “Our old ...

A new study explores how culture is overtaking genetics as the driving force in human evolution and shaping our future.

Longer thumbs mean bigger brains and this is “pivotal” to human evolution, research has found. Scientists studied 94 fossils and living animals to understand how our ancestors developed their gripping ...

Twenty years ago the Human Genome Project (HGP) unveiled a mostly complete sequence of the roughly 3bn base pairs of DNA found in every set of human chromosomes. The project was chock-full of ego and ...