Many scientists point to cultural evolution, the process by which knowledge, customs and technology spread over time. But ...
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 ...
Why do we have big brains? Or walk on two legs? Biological anthropologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts talks human ...
Based on Coll Macià's upper-bound generation interval of about 30 years, there have been at least 10,000 generations of ...
Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...
Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live and when groups stayed apart. By tracing ancient mosquito habitats, ...
Humans are overwhelmingly right-handed, but scientists have long struggled to explain why no other primate species shows ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic story traces back at least to Charles Darwin, the ...
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 ...