Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the evolutionary advantages of these traits, finds a new analysis of ape skulls by ...
To Shakespeare's Hamlet, we humans are "the paragon of animals." But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution's greatest achievement. For example, ...
Lower jaw of a human with almost a full set of teeth, two incisors are missing. Mandible of an adult male early modern Homo sapiens that lived about 27,000 years ago Credit: Sciencesource Enamel, the ...
A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans ...