Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the answer may be in a surprising twist of evolutionary fate: one of the brain’s ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

The human chin is one of evolution’s strangest quirks. Unlike other primates, we alone have a protruding bony point beneath ...

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.

BUFFALO, N.Y. ­­ ­ ­­— Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining strong teeth and defending against oral disease.

The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

These papers were first presented as a symposium at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, Dec. 27, 1953. They were published in the Sept. 1954 issue of ...