If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy straightforward explanation. From the jut of the human chin to the curve of the outer ...

Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

Cat Bohannon's "Eve" is vaguely intimidating. Fine, more than a little intimidating. It's more than 600 pages, promising to cover 200 million years of human evolution. The young adult adaptation, just ...

Food processing has been a part of human adaptation since deep in the past. The softening and breaking down of food left its testimony on the human body. For example, the massive teeth of our early ...

The new evolutionary study found two main reasons for the primate anomaly: to attract mates and to threaten rivals.

The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...