The study of human evolution and comparative anatomy bridges palaeontology, biomechanics and evolutionary biology to elucidate the origins of our unique anatomy. Recent analyses have shed new light on ...

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 ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

Dr. Scott Simpson has been active in paleoanthropological field and laboratory research in Ethiopia since 1992 as a member of the Middle Awash Research Project, the Gona Research Project, and he is ...

In a recent News Hour segment on PBS television, doctors and researchers pointed out that female sexual topics were largely ignored in medical school where mostly male lecturers knew almost nothing ...

Leaf through a textbook, watch a wellness influencer or listen in at the gym, and it can feel as though the human body has already been mapped to exhaustion. Every muscle named, every nerve traced.

The arm bone fragment excavated in 2013 at the site Mata Menge. Y. Kaifu We have discovered rare and very old human fossils on the Indonesian island of Flores, including an astonishingly small adult ...

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