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 ...
Researchers who investigated the remains of a young adult male found in the Qafzeh cave say the injury healed over time, ...
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The Evolution of the Brain May Have Outpaced the Body, New Study Suggests
For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...
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 ...
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