UNC-Chapel Hill history professor Kathleen DuVal recently won a Pulitzer Prize for her book, "Native Nations," which ...

Elon Musk has been warning about the imminent end of human life as we know it for over a decade. Ten years ago, his solution was to colonize Mars as a sort of defense mechanism against climate change; ...

Over thousands of years, humans from Eurasia trekked more than 12,400 miles to eventually reach the southernmost tip of South America, a new genetic investigation suggests ...

Chasing the Wind” Wednesday, May 28 at 8 p.m. on WOUB The relationship between man and his noble steed is almost as... Read More ...

As thousands of Chinese families take DNA tests, the results are upending what adoptees abroad thought they knew about their ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

Whether the still relatively young values of liberalism will survive, whether reading and writing will continue to be the ...

Medical anthropologist Emily Mendenhall, Professor in the Science, Technology, and International Affairs Program in the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, ...

Cancer took just about everyone in journalist Larry Ingrassia’s family, except him. His book unpacks his family’s ...

Human healthy aging and longevity are complex phenomena influenced by a dynamic interplay of genetic, epigenetic, metabolic, ...

The study adds to evidence challenging the dominance of ‘natural selection’ as the sole adaptive force in evolution.

David Liu and Richard Merkin of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, along with Columbia professor Sam Sternberg, have ...