For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

Mental health disorders can be debilitating and agonising, and they are becoming ever more prominent factors of human health. Scientists are now just beginning to unravel how these disorders could ...

A study links vulnerability to mental disorders with recent human evolutionary changes and gene variations related to brain size.

Their study, published in Neuron, provides a surprisingly direct link between human brain evolution and neurodevelopmental disorders.

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...