For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

The unique human body part that evolution cannot explain - The human chin has long been fertile ground for arguments between scientists over its purpose ...

From back pain to wisdom teeth, many of the human body's common problems exist because evolution builds on old designs, a new ...

The water-to-land transition stands as one of the most significant events in vertebrate evolution, giving rise to the two major groups of living land vertebrates—amniotes and lissamphibians—which ...

In thoroughly enjoyable and edifying prose, Lieberman, professor of human evolution at Harvard, leads a fascinating journey through human evolution. He comprehensively explains how evolutionary forces ...