Research into the development of human language. By Matt Phillips Introduction Picture a human being before the...
Evolution
Evolution explains how life changes across generations through inherited variation and natural selection. Read about the development of evolutionary thought and the evidence that continues to refine our understanding of life.
Our biggest evolutionary advantages are an ability to walk on two legs and our big brains. By...
Bonobos may help explain how humans evolved the capacity to be nice – at least some of...
Early Neanderthals likely benefited from an ingression of H. sapiens Y chromosomes some-time between 370,000 and 100,000...
Larger brains lead to a broader social network. Human society rewards individuals who can handle complex social...
Key human adaptations evolved in response to environmental instability. Climate Fluctuation Paleoanthropologists – scientists who study human...
We have more neurons in our cortices than any other species, courtesy of an early technology –...
Some populations of Neanderthals were definitely more carnivorous than others. By Dr. Anna GoldfieldArchaeologist One of the...
If you go by editorial cartoons and T-shirts, you might have the impression that evolution proceeds as...
Darwin to understand the convergence of disparate scales of geological and human history. The event now known...
Considering language from a biological perspective led researchers to the idea that new food processing technologies affected...
Vision is a window onto the world, its qualities determined by natural selection. Evolution has favoured the...
Humans stand out among all the mammals as being the only species to totter about on two...
By looking at drug addiction from an evolutionary perspective, we may understand its underlying significance and evaluate...
Archaeological excavation at Ain Boucherit, Algeria. Mathieu Duval, Author provided Ancient stone tools found in what is now Algeria show early humans likely spread across Africa more rapidly than...
Charles Le Brun, The relation between the human physiognomy and that of the brute creation / Wellcome...
Inside Rome’s Colosseum visitors can view the chambers that once held animals and contenders below the arena...
Skull of a Homo sapiens (a.k.a. modern human) individual, on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural...
This hand was discovered in articulation and all bones are represented except for the pisiform. / Photo...
Reconstruction of ancient life and environments is an extremely challenging problem. By Dr. William Irvin Sellers Professor,...
Holding on in hurricane-force winds. Colin Donihue, Creative Commons In the wake of two hurricanes in the Turks and Caicos Islands, researchers document for...
Skulls of Homo sapiens (left) and Neanderthal (right) from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. This derivative work shows the skulls...
Ammonite fossil / Photo by Becks, Wikimedia Commons Nineteenth-century England saw a major revolution in the scientific...
“The Ancient Wrasse”, a detail from the frontispiece to The Aquarium (1856, 2nd edition) — Biodiversity Library Bernd Brunner on...
Emily Anthes braves locusts, beetles, mealworms and more as she asks whether eating insects is the answer...
Sunrise at noon in the Arctic. Little exposure to sun was a piece of the genetic puzzle. Bering...
A virus is essentially an information system (encoded in DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protective coat. Tom...
New research using ancient DNA finds that a population split after people first arrived in North America...
Lucy, born 3.2m years ago. Pat Sullivan/AP It should not be a surprise that East Africa was a...
3D virtual reconstruction of two-million-year-old ear. Rolf Quam, CC BY-ND Beyond the cool factor of figuring out hominin hearing capacities two...