Many factors influence how long you live, such as diet, exercise, smoking, drinking, environment and other variables. It also helps not to get hit by a dump truck. But what about your genes? That has ...

It’s a phenomenon that was called the Homogenocene even before a similar term growing in popularity, the Anthropocene, was ...

Using single-cell epigenomic profiling of immune cells from 110 individuals, researchers show that genetic variation and ...

Early-life adversity should accelerate development, resulting in earlier pubertal maturation than would otherwise be expected ...

As animals go about their lives ― eating, fighting, having babies ― they don’t always follow the script laid out for them by ...

Humans build, expand, and take risks. Nature responds in ways we cannot fully control. This video looks at moments when people went head to head with nature. And how quickly things changed. GOP ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both ...

The Origins of Politics: How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations, by Nicholas Wade (HarperCollins, 256 pp., $32.00) No matter how he lands on one’s radar, Wade is worth reading. His ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...