Topic: human evolution

Happy mother with baby girl and grandmother at home (Getty Images/Oliver Rossi)

Why do humans go through menopause?

Nicole Karlis
In the Senckenberg museum in Frankfurt on the Main on 24 June 1988, a woman looks at the reconstruction of the sceleton of "Lucy" who was a woman living in the area of today's Ethiopia about 3,2 million years ago and is one of the most famous fossils of early mankind. (Heinz Wieseler/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Shattering evolution myths about women

Emily Cataneo - Undark
Cabinet of replica human fosil skulls. From a college dept of Anthropology. (kickstand via Getty Images)

New study upends human evolution history

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A boat approaching a small island in the Aegean Sea. (Getty Images/George Pachantouris)

Boats predate humans — by 500,000 years

Troy Farah
A female Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and her baby sitting on a tree in Gombe Stream National Park in Western Tanzania (Getty Images/guenterguni)

Did bipedalism evolve in the trees?

Troy Farah
Comparison of craniums, with the Harbin "Dragon Man" skull on the right. (Kai Geng)

The "Dragon Man" skeptics, explained

Nicole Karlis
Aboriginal stencil art in Carnarvon Gorge National Park, Queensland, Australia. (Peter Unger/Getty Images)

The meandering path of human evolution

M.R. O'Connor - Undark
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mondaufgang_im_Valle_de_la_Luna.jpg">HolyPetrus</a>)

Evolving to live with arsenic poisoning

Darcy Shapiro - Massive Science

Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg - The Conversation