The uvula is nearly unique to humans among mammals. An evolutionary biologist unpacks competing theories for why we evolved ...
Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...
Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...
A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...
Like every other living thing on Earth - past, present, and indeed future - we’re products of evolution. This might be hard for some to believe, but our evolutionary history has been dictated by the ...
A study of 225 newborns suggests prenatal estrogen may have played a role in the evolution of larger human brains. Boys with ...
This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...
A new analysis supports the previously overlooked "brain lag" hypothesis—the idea that, in some primate lineages, the evolution of larger body size preceded the evolution of larger brain size—while ...
Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building ...
Over thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on drinking water that would make most ...