This video traces the long evolutionary path from the first primates about 85 million years ago to modern Homo sapiens. Kayleigh moves through primate suborders, New World and Old World monkeys, apes, ...

Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining strong teeth and defending against oral disease. However, the evolution of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. ­­ ­ ­­— Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining strong teeth and defending against oral disease.

Scientists have long thought humans have a uniquely difficult birth compared to other primates.And it's true that from an evolutionary perspective, we face an obstetrical dilemma. As we evolved to ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

New research suggests upright walking and brain growth shaped human right-handedness. This evolutionary process began when ...

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1. Introduction / Tracy L. Kivell, Pierre Lemelin, Brian G. Richmond, and Daniel Schmitt -- 2. On primitiveness, prehensility, and opposability of the primate hand : the contributions of Frederic Wood ...

Testing 79 adults from Bolivia’s indigenous Tsimane’ farmer-forager population, who do not undergo formal U.S.-style ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in ...