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Humans may have evolved to live longer so we can learn skills to pass on and work together, an anthropologist says.Kathrin Ziegler/Getty Images The idea of living like our ancestors has become ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...

Archaeologists in Georgia have unearthed a 1.8-million-year-old jawbone belonging to an early human species. The find is expected to shed light on some of the earliest prehistoric human settlements on ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...