You will be hard-pressed to find an animal that has no rudimentary or useless traits: Atrophied eyes, discarded wings, or male breasts, to name just a few of many. In males, for example, what is the ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.

Scientists uncover fossils suggesting Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a 7-million-year-old ancestor, could walk upright. Could ...

In fact, over 85% of the occurrences of bipedalism that were observed took place when the apes were in the trees. "Our study suggests that the retreat of forests in the late Miocene-Pliocene era ...

Humans might have evolved our two-footed posture for its fighting advantage; we punch harder standing than on all fours, and downward punches are much more forceful than upward ones. This could also ...

The inner ear may not seem like a particularly bony place, but human ears in fact have three small bones (also known as ossicles): the malleus, the incus and the stapes. While most people would assume ...

Scientists have unearthed the remains of Sahelanthropus tchadensis, potentially one of our earliest ancestors. A new analysis ...

One of the biggest questions in human evolution asks why humans became habitually bipedal about 7 million years ago. Most of our primate cousins do well walking quadrupedally and switch to two legs ...

Reconstruction of the locomotion and paleXiaocong Guo and Xijun Ni, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Our ability to walk upright is among the ...

The World Health Organisation notes that in 2020, 619 million people worldwide suffered from lower back pain. Globally, lower ...