ape-faced human ancestor walked steadily on two feet. To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans ...
The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 ...
The discovery of new fossils in Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, has reshaped our understanding of Paranthropus robustus, an ...
From the heart's blood-pumping ability to the liver's filtering power, each component of the human ... your anatomy with the answers to these questions, plus a few bonus facts about your bones ...
Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths ... toppling to one side when all our weight is on one foot in mid-stride. Chimps have thigh bones that do not slope inward to the knee like ours ...
when the study of human anatomy was still in its infancy, curious onlookers would gather in anatomical theaters to catch of a glimpse of public dissections of the dead. In the years since, scientists ...