Only about 1 in 5 people have a chin dimple. An evolutionary biologist unpacks the genetics — and the deeper mystery of why ...

For more than a century, scientists have sought to reconstruct human evolution using diverse lines of evidence, including ...

Psychedelics get humans high. On this point, there is no question. For centuries, Indigenous shamans, the mystically inclined ...

Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – but that may not be true at all ...

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

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Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ancestors hunted, cooled themselves and survived. Losing body hair is usually a ...

We should be wary of attempts to impose a simple narrative on the story of early human evolution – recent discoveries can be interpreted in many ways and future finds are likely to cause further ...

When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...