The human body may seem finely engineered, but many of its most familiar features reveal a history of evolutionary compromise ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...