To Shakespeare's Hamlet, we humans are "the paragon of animals." But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution's greatest achievement. For example, humans ...

Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...

The human hand is an evolutionary marvel. While other primates rely on their hands for locomotion and basic grasping, ours ...

Evolution is perhaps the most extraordinary story ever told—a tale spanning billions of years that connects every living thing on Earth through an intricate web of shared ancestry. From the tiniest ...

Biological anthropology explores human evolution, biological diversity and primate behavior. Research in this area examines how humans emerged as a species, how we vary today and how biology interacts ...

Playing a complex guitar solo ought to be impossible. To elicit the desired torrent of notes, the fingers of one hand must move nimbly around the fretboard, while the other hand plucks the strings, in ...