Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and immune response.

Introduction -- A brief history of primatology and human evolution -- The catarrhine fossil record -- Primate speciation and extinction -- Anatomical primatology -- Captive studies of non-human ...

These papers were first presented as a symposium at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, Dec. 27, 1953. They were published in the Sept. 1954 issue of ...

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

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

Recent investigations into primate behaviour have underscored the importance of cultural evolution — the process by which behaviours and skills are socially transmitted and refined over successive ...

Here's something that'll make your next giggle session feel a bit weird: scientists genuinely can't figure out if your ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the answer may be in a surprising twist of evolutionary fate: one of the brain’s ...

Longer thumbs mean bigger brains and this is “pivotal” to human evolution, research has found. “Large brains and dexterous hands are considered pivotal in human evolution, together making possible ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...