Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

A new study warns modern life may undermine key human survival traits, from fertility to cognition, as environmental ...

Have dreams of working in the medical or veterinary fields? UW’s human and animal physiology minor might be for you. This program equips students with the skills, education and experience needed to ...

Hunger is an ancestral and evolutionary survival instinct; its importance is evident in the complex and redundant pathways involving all five senses that regulate it. 1,2 Historically, when humans ...

Every cell in our body starts out with the same set of genetic instructions, or DNA. Yet only some of these genes are expressed in each cell, leading to the production of proteins that perform the ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...

Researchers discover a potential genetic connection between humans' tail loss and a type of birth defect. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

An intensive introductory course for non-majors who will take additional course work in biology or related disciplines, including the allied health sciences. Introduction to the biological sciences ...