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Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other primates lack.

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Digging in the dirt of East Africa for ancient monkey remains, University assistant professor Stephen R. Frost discovered that famed South African paleontologist Elisabeth Vrba’s controversial ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

A review article now published in Nature Reviews Genetics brings together evolutionary theory, comparative genomics and large-scale human genetics to explain why we age and why aging rates differ ...