Adaptations aren't created equal and here are five science-fiction novels that deserve way better movie adaptations than what ...

It is a basic understanding in anthropology that the course of human evolution differs fundamentally from that of other animals due to its heavy reliance on cultural rather than biological adaptation.

A new genomic study reveals how human populations adapted, survived, and diversified in the Himalayas, one of the most extreme and challenging environments on Earth. The research, a collaboration ...

University of Haifa co-led study of Carmel Coast mud cores finds ancient Levantine communities adapted to drought rather than ...

Human societies are already experiencing wide-ranging consequences of a warming planet. Rising average temperatures, more frequent and intense heatwaves, shifting precipitation patterns and ...

Gray's Anatomy (the book, not the TV show) was the first comprehensive attempt to map evolved human physiological adaptations — the organs of the human body. Imagine a similar effort to map human ...

High on the Tibetan Plateau, where the air feels thin in a way that is hard to describe unless you’ve stood there, human life has been quietly adjusting itself for thousands of years. Villages sit at ...