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A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.
The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain—have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of our ...
A new study argues that religion, politics and war affect how animals and plants in cities evolve, and the confluence of ...
It was thanks to the multiple observations provided by convergent evolution that we were able to discover this consistent correlation between testicle size and sex life right across the mammals.
The unique human body part that evolution cannot explain The human chin has long been fertile ground for arguments between scientists over its purpose ...
If we climb the evolutionary tree of life, we can follow a twisting path that visits the increasingly specialised branches that a species belongs to.
Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...
One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His ...