Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths and the weaknesses of a body plan inherited from distant ancestors, giving us an efficient and graceful gait and a range of painful problems from ...

In comparison, the Neanderthal's body was suited to cold environments. But despite this, in the cold climate of the last glaciation, he would have worn animal skins to survive. When looking at the ...

This basin helped support her internal organs and entire upper body as she moved ... bones are long and sturdy relative to those of modern humans. Laetoli Footprints: prints Whoever left these ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

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"By leveraging the surviving Denisovan segments in modern human genomes scientists have ... common in Tibetan populations ...