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 four billion years of our ...

In thoroughly enjoyable and edifying prose, Lieberman, professor of human evolution at Harvard, leads a fascinating journey through human evolution. He comprehensively explains how evolutionary forces ...

Veins in Lee Franco’s temples and along his biceps bulged as he lifted a 25-pound weight to his chest. He grimaced under the load, but knew if he dropped the dumbbell, no one at the gym would laugh or ...

Body parts evolution forgot to remove that humans somehow keep hauling around uselessly forever ...

Selena Gomez has no interest in comparing her current body to her past self. “Today, I realized I will never look like this again,” Gomez, 31, captioned a bikini photo from 2013 via her Instagram ...

The water-to-land transition stands as one of the most significant events in vertebrate evolution, giving rise to the two major groups of living land vertebrates—amniotes and lissamphibians—which ...

What are humans adapted for? -- Upstanding apes: how we became bipeds -- Much depends on dinner: how australopiths partly weaned us off fruit -- The first hunter-gatherers: how nearly modern bodies ...