As The Jungle Book’s King Louie knows all too well, the ability to control fire is what sets humans apart from apes, fueling our cultural and biological evolution and rocketing us into the space age.

Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and ...

Usually when you think of evolution or natural selection, you think of survival of the fittest. But sometimes, the resulting ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Bed bugs did not evolve to target humans by accident, but through a long process of adaptation tied closely to human behavior. As people moved into permanent shelters, these insects shifted hosts and ...

A team of biochemists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has developed a faster way to identify molecules in the ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

A machine learning animation technology from the same creator whose work was infamously shot down by Studio Ghibli’s Hayao ...

“Burns are a uniquely human injury. No other species lives alongside high temperatures and the regular risk of burning in the ...

Centralized migration accelerates adaptation and drives parallel evolution, emphasizing the key influence of spatial organization on evolutionary dynamics across systems from pathogen transmission to ...