Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining ...

New research reveals that scavenging may have helped early humans adapt, expand, and endure tough seasons through smart use ...

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 ...

The tallest man to ever live was Robert Wadlow, who reached a staggering 2.72m. That's equal to a very large male ostrich or Shaquille O'Neal with two bowling pins balanced on his head.

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

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According to a statement released by the Spanish National Research Centre for Human Evolution (CENIEH), Ana Mateos and Jesús ...

Participate in a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and more this month at the National Museum of Natural History Jack Tamisiea Tens of thousands of years ago, ancient humans domesticated the ancestors of gray ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

This very lifestyle, of standing and walking on two legs unlike some of our primate predecessors, may have been key to supercharging the survival and reproductive advantage of our ancestral species.

The domestication of dogs began around 15,000 years ago, when wolves first started to be domesticated by humans. It is believed that early humans tamed wolves and eventually bred them to create the ...

A disbelief in human evolution was associated with higher levels of prejudice, racist attitudes and support of discriminatory behavior against Blacks, immigrants and the LGBTQ community in the U.S., ...