Discover the history of our feline friends, and learn about the debate over whether cats are really "domesticated" at all.

Brian Hare, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, presented his “survival of the friendliness” ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

There's no question that humans have left an indelible mark on the world, but we're also inadvertently steering the evolution ...

By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

Research in Honduras shows that humans began selecting for larger fruits with thicker rinds as early as 7,500 years ago—long ...

The researchers suggest that these changes are indicative of domestication by humans, who preferred larger fruit and thicker skins. By comparing the sizes of the seeds and skins over time ...

This means fruit domestication at this site began thousands ... Over generations of living and working there, humans left heaps of discarded squash seeds, maize kernels, agave leaves and much ...