Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

Recent research from the UK Biobank shows that menopause is linked to adverse mental health outcomes and lower brain volume.

Professor Tim Coulson describes evolution as a gradual process that alters living organisms over generations. The mechanism ...

NEW YORK — Dating out of your league? New research says it’s a tale as old as time. A study published in the journal Science ...

A study out Thursday in Science argues that Neanderthal men and human women were particularly inclined to mate, a sexual ...

A study said that Neanderthal men and human women were particularly inclined to mate, a sexual habit that offers insight into the evolution of the modern human genome.

Of all the pesticides out there, few have sparked more controversy than glyphosate. The world’s most used weed killer, ...

At the highest level sits ideational survival. Humans care about legacy, cultural continuity, and symbolic immortality. Religious systems, moral codes, and philosophical doctrines often function to ...

A baby monkey desperately clings to a stuffed animal while its own mother rejects it—millions of people are moved by the ...

Coined forever chemicals due to the years it takes for them to break down, PFAS are 'a group of thousands of human-made ...

Society / We are seeing yet another example of state-sanctioned violence against the reproductive futures of those deemed outside the national body. Ira Memaj When Cecil Elvir-Quinonez was pulled over ...

Will humanity extend into the far future? It's likely many of us think it should. The problem is that each of us, individually and collectively, act otherwise—we are destroying the environment and ...