The Human Body Isn’t Perfect – It Was Improvised by Evolution

Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...

Leg evolution made most humans right-handed

No matter where you are in the world, the humans living there are about 90 percent right-handed while the remaining 10 ...

Why Do Humans Have Unique Voices? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains The Anatomy That Makes You Unmistakable

Every human voice is acoustically unique. The anatomy and evolutionary history behind that fact turns out to be one of ...
The Conversation

The human body isn’t a masterpiece of design – it’s a patchwork of evolutionary compromise

The human body is often described as a marvel of “perfect design”: elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, when we look closer, a rather different picture emerges. Far from being a ...
PBS

'Eve' dispels human evolution myths and female body's role

Where do we come from and how did we evolve into the beings and bodies we are today? The new book "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution" argues for a better ...