Veins in Lee Franco’s temples and along his biceps bulged as he lifted a 25-pound weight to his chest. He grimaced under the load, but knew if he dropped the dumbbell, no one at the gym would laugh or ...

Selena Gomez has no interest in comparing her current body to her past self. “Today, I realized I will never look like this again,” Gomez, 31, captioned a bikini photo from 2013 via her Instagram ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

In thoroughly enjoyable and edifying prose, Lieberman, professor of human evolution at Harvard, leads a fascinating journey through human evolution. He comprehensively explains how evolutionary forces ...

Insular evolution represents an exceptional facet of evolutionary biology, wherein species isolated on islands undergo distinct morphological, behavioural, and ecological changes compared to their ...

Cat Bohannon’s new book, Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, opens with a fact so thoroughly detached from beauty myths and the beauty industry that it makes every ...

Females and males differ in many ways and yet they share the same genome. The only exception is the male Y chromosome. Using beetles as a study system, new research shows that despite of the Y ...

What are humans adapted for? -- Upstanding apes: how we became bipeds -- Much depends on dinner: how australopiths partly weaned us off fruit -- The first hunter-gatherers: how nearly modern bodies ...