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

Brain growth slowed down about 300,000 years ago due to energetic and climate pressures, according to a study published in ...

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 4 billion years of ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

How did the evolutionary ancestors of Homo sapiens separate from the ancestors of modern apes? A key ingredient leading to modern human beings, according to researchers at the University of ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

But what of the human chin? The human chin has been fertile ground for arguments between scientists over its purpose. As with testicles, there are half a dozen plausible ideas to explain the evolution ...

Now, a new study offers support for the hypothesis that these ancient viral remnants play a key role in the early stages of human development and may have been implicated in our evolution.

Human evolution has long been visualized as a simple linear timeline, a kind of evolutionary baton race in which one species evolves into another, from apes to modern humans.