Commercial DNA testing isn’t just harmless entertainment. It’s keeping alive ideas that deserve to die.

New findings shed light on the origin and evolution of these stubborn pathogens.

Recent discoveries, and new analyses of old evidence, are revolutionizing the way scientists look at human history.

At birth, human infants have the highest percentage of body fat of any species. Here’s why.

As the number of sufferers continues to rise, some researchers are moving in new directions to figure out how culture and lifestyle shape disease outcomes.

Scientists are getting better and better at using DNA to figure out when key evolutionary events happened.

As an increasingly complex picture of schizophrenia emerges, researchers are recognizing that a more individualized and humane approach is needed to better understand and treat the condition.

Some research suggests that throughout our evolution an innate tendency toward fighting shaped human anatomy. But anthropologists are sharply divided on the matter.

Traits we often tend to disparage were—and arguably still are—critical to human communities.

Researchers who study the DNA of ancient Native Americans have been learning how to collaborate with American Indian tribes instead of fighting them over ancestral human remains. But a recent case suggests still more sensitivity is needed.