Some people have such bizarre genetics and medical histories that they feel like walking and talking statistical anomalies.

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

Humans are fundamentally "musical animals"—and our capacity for music is rooted in biology, not just culture. This is the conclusion of new work by University of Amsterdam professor of Music Cognition ...

Biologists mapping the human body have long assumed that every major kind of microscopic life inside us already had a place on the tree of life. The discovery of strange RNA-based entities called ...

Human brains can sense rhythm and melody from birth, showing music may be part of biology rather than something learned.

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing ...

Everybody reading this column knows that biopharma is a difficult business. Biology is unfathomably complicated and figuring out how to introduce something into the human body that does more good than ...