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

This video explores a wide range of human traits and characteristics by examining how common or rare they are across the ...

Did you know humans might have had a third eye, if it weren't for evolution? A common misconception is that evolution is a ...

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

Human Connectome Project (HCP) map of white matter tracts connecting various brain regions. Source: Courtesy of the Human Connectome Project In November 2013, I wrote a Psychology Today blog post ...

Although some genes linked to life span have been identified, external environmental forces, such as disease or living ...

The new evolutionary study found two main reasons for the primate anomaly: to attract mates and to threaten rivals.