This video traces the long evolutionary path from the first primates about 85 million years ago to modern Homo sapiens.

Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining strong teeth and defending against oral disease. However, the evolution of ...

The uvula is nearly unique to humans among mammals. An evolutionary biologist unpacks competing theories for why we evolved ...

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. ­­ ­ ­­— Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining strong teeth and defending against oral disease.

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species ...

Sleep is often treated as a casualty of modern life. Artificial lighting, shift work, endless notifications and late-night ...

1. Introduction / Tracy L. Kivell, Pierre Lemelin, Brian G. Richmond, and Daniel Schmitt -- 2. On primitiveness, prehensility, and opposability of the primate hand : the contributions of Frederic Wood ...

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 ...

A study investigated whether the genes for schizophrenia and autism appeared more frequently as mammals evolved bigger brains ...