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 ...

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

Learn more about the human tailbone and how, even though we may not have a strict need for it anymore, it still helps us with ...

Human flexibility in shoulders and elbows originated from ancient apes' need for safe tree descent. A new study reveals chimpanzees, unlike monkeys, ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

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.

Lead is a powerful neurotoxin that disrupts the growth and function of both brain and body. There is no safe level of lead exposure, and even the smallest traces can impair memory, learning and ...

The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...

Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on teeth and brain size suggests. Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

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 ...