From back injuries to difficult childbirth, here are six annoying parts of being human that you can blame on evolution.

But Lucy and other fossil finds reveal that more than 3 million years ago, a relatively small-brained, ape-faced human ancestor walked steadily on two feet ... well as to the anatomy of "knuckle ...

Researchers have made a scientific discovery that in time could be used to slow the signs of ageing. A team has discovered ...

Evidence for this function first came from studies of the organ's anatomy and its nerves as well ... the brain weighs less than a tenth of an ounce. (Adult human brains typically weigh about ...

We place batteries inside remote controls, toys (like the ones that light up or make sounds), wireless keyboards and mouses, wall clocks, and smoke detectors. Let’s take a look inside a single-use ...

But Lucy stood on two feet and had a small brain ... I know that she is still the reference point for understanding the anatomy of early human ancestors and the evolution of our own bodies.

On November 24, 1974, Johanson was out prospecting for fossils of human ancestors with his graduate student Tom Gray, eyes ...

MS (thesis) students will be expected to attend and participate in all Anatomy Seminar and Journal Club presentations and attend all M.S. non thesis, M.S. thesis and Ph.D. dissertation defenses.

One of the 20th-century's biggest quests was to find the “missing link,” a being who connected humans to their pre-historic ...

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Human biology is the study of all aspects of the human organism including evolution, genetics, ecology, anatomy and physiology, development, anthropology, and nutrition, among others. A deep ...

Josh Leonardis received funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health to study why female manual wheelchair ...