How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...

Saini Samim receives funding from the Melbourne Research Schorship provided by the University of Melbourne. She has also received funding from the Australian Research Council and the Turkana Basin ...

The curious minds at What If compress the evolution of humans into just 20 minutes, exploring adaptation, migration, and ...

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Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

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Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, 3258 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843. progress in some areas of sexual selection research, we still have much to accomplish. One of the great strengths of ...