The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been radically altered over millions of years to allow us to accomplish our bizarre ...

A University of Montpellier study published on September 1st in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

Now a new study in Nature led by Harvard scientists reveals two key genetic shifts that remodeled the pelvis to help human ancestors become the upright bipeds ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...

Cat Bohannon's "Eve" is vaguely intimidating. Fine, more than a little intimidating. It's more than 600 pages, promising to cover 200 million years of human evolution. The young adult adaptation, just ...

Humans are built for life on land, but what if evolution had taken a different path and sent us back into the ocean? To imagine this, we need to look at some of the ocean’s most incredible creatures ...

Guest: Cat Bohannon is a researcher and theorist specializing in the evolution of narrative and cognition. She is the author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution.

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of our ...

Since the Middle Ages, the size of wild and domestic animals has largely been shaped by human selection: domestic animals are ...