A new study explains how climbing down trees helped shape upright posture in early primates and changed the course of evolution.

Interest in human hibernation has intensified in recent years, driven by the convergence of long-duration space travel requirements and advances in metabolic science. Space agencies, academic ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of neonatal excitotoxic lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) on social play, social behavior unrelated to play, and self-grooming ...

'Anthropogeny' (explaining the origin of humans) requires a transdisciplinary approach that eschews disciplinary barriers and rejects artificial 'genes versus environment' dichotomies. The genomic and ...