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 ...

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 ...

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ancestors hunted, cooled themselves and survived. Losing body hair is usually a ...

Over thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on drinking water that would make most ...

When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...