Are you lactose intolerant? Many people are. In fact, the ability to digest lactose may be an example of adaptive evolution in the human lineage. Although the study of natural selection in humans ...

Let's take a look at 10 gross human adaptations, if you have the stomach to read about them all. Read more: These 11 Habits Make You More Likely To Die Early If you've been for a long run in the ...

Researchers have found that wounds heal three times more slowly in humans than in other primates and rodents, suggesting we ...

In deaf people, for example, “the part of the brain that before was doing audition adapts to be doing something else, which is vision and somatosensation,” she said. However, deaf humans “don’t just ...

HIV-1 strains in humans arose from three independent ape-to-human transmissions in the early 20th century, but the viral adaptation in humans remained unknown until now. Paul Sharp and colleagues from ...

Australian and Dutch researchers have uncovered a remarkable evolutionary adaptation in birds that could hold vital clues for ...