Human and chimpanzee genomes are more than 98% identical, and the genes themselves barely differ. The changes that make us ...

Like every other living thing on Earth - past, present, and indeed future - we’re products of evolution. This might be hard for some to believe, but our evolutionary history has been dictated by the ...

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The uvula, a sturcture hanging from a part of the body people rarely think about, turns out to sit at the intersection of two of the most consequential developments in human evolution. Peer into ...

To find out what people gain from that consistent stride, the researchers asked human volunteers to try walking more like ...

When you think about it, it seems remarkable that humanity is still here. Over the last few hundred thousand years, the world has changed a lot, sometimes in ways that might seem difficult for ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our species than most would think. If you’ve ever marvelled while watching a ...

Excerpted from “Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well” by Daniel Lieberman, the Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Human ...