Biological evolution works slowly. Genetic changes that truly adapt humans to new environments generally require many ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

What muscles feet have, how your brain controls them, and how humans evolved all play a part in why people can’t easily move individual toes.

A new study shows monkeys can perceive and sync to a musical beat, challenging assumptions about rhythm, evolution, and ...

A major new study has revealed that a group of people in southern Africa lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands ...

Most of the muscles of your foot let you point your toes down, like when you stand on tiptoes, or lift them up, like when you walk on your heels. These muscles also help feet roll slightly inward or ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

Plants have developed an extraordinary ability to synthesize a diverse array of secondary metabolites. These compounds are ...

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot reveals that two early hominin species lived together - A. deyiremeda and A. afarensis.