What muscles feet have, how your brain controls them, and how humans evolved all play a part in why people can’t easily move individual toes.

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

A new study shows monkeys can perceive and sync to a musical beat, challenging assumptions about rhythm, evolution, and ...

A major new study has revealed that a group of people in southern Africa lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands ...

Most of the muscles of your foot let you point your toes down, like when you stand on tiptoes, or lift them up, like when you walk on your heels. These muscles also help feet roll slightly inward or ...

A reduction in rainfall may have played a sizable role in the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the archaic human species ...

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