Most modern humans have at least one chin. Some of us are blessed wi...  ...t Franciscus in the Journal of Anatomy looking at evolutionary history of chins. One popular theory among physic...  ...ists has been chins provide support to chewing as humans age and eat harder foods....

Humans are evolving, as they always have, it’s jus...  ...ns to notice. But the things we do now affect how humans will change in the future. What will humans be like a thousand years from now?[https://youtu....

(Photo: Corpse Reviver) Humans alone have chins. Why? Scientists have speculated...  ...e speculated over that question for decades. What evolutionary advantage does the chin offer? Dr. Robert G. Fran...  ...ly the result of the reshaping of the rest of the human skull:Using adva...

(Photo: Peter Mooney)Previous studies indicate that men who have ring fingers that are longer than their index fingers tend to have higher sex drives and sperm counts. They have greater "reproductive potential." A new st...

It's not the most scientifically accurate depictio...  ...not the most scientifically accurate depiction of human evolution . But the Doma Collective's Involución Prim...  ...lever.We've previously seen the Doma Collective's human bundle of energy bouncing around and giant roboti...

Why did Neanderthals die out while other hominids...  ...rvived? In an article published in the Journal of Human Evolution , John E. Fa and colleagues argue that it may be b...  ...became more prevalent. The authors postulate that humans were more successful at switching to catching and...  ...ble to cooperate....

For hundreds of thousands of years, several specie...  ...undreds of thousands of years, several species of humans existed at the same time: the Neanderthals, the D...  ...An essay at io9 compares the speciation of early humans with the different aliens in the world of Star Tr...  ...y, so all the aliens from di...

According to the recently published results of a s...  ...esults of a study by biologist David Carrier, the human hand, when formed into a fist, was an evolutionary advantage for early humans :For this latest study, he and co-author Michael M...  ...pe of hand anatomy, the...

Idiocracy wasn't a movie, but a documentary. Geral...  ...cs laboratory at Stanford University, argues that humans evolved to be hunter/gatherers--a high risk occup...

Could a modern human beat a Neanderthal in a fight? Maybe, but the mod...  ...t a Neanderthal in a fight? Maybe, but the modern human should keep his distance and play a long game:A N...