A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified ...

One of my abiding memories of the politics class at my high school was when we learnt about Shulamith Firestone (1945–2012), the feminist and author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist ...

A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on ...

In “Reproductive Wrongs,” the classicist Sarah Ruden traces efforts to exert political control over family planning back 2,000 years.

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know ...

When the two species got together tens of thousands of years ago, the hookups may have often involved a male Neanderthal and a female human, according to a new study. The findings, described February ...

Invasive species are all over America, and it’s very likely you may have seen them in your own backyard. Some species are so ...

Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

We have many challenges but at the same time we have a lot of strength”, says Maria Antonieta Alcalde Castro, the new Director General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations already inhabiting the vast expanses ...