Being able to walk upright on two feet is a physical trait that distinguishes modern humans from our early ancestors. While the evolution of bipedalism has contributed to our success as a species, it has also limited the evolution of other features and increased our risk for certain diseases.... Read more about Video: When Evolution Hurts

Human evolutionary scholars have long assumed that the earliest stone tools were made by members of the genus Homo... Read more about Video: Exploring Humanity’s Technological Origins

Our ancestors hunted big game for the same reasons some of us drive fancy cars or carry a designer handbag: status. The hunters were hungry for prestige, and the meat was a bonus.

The Evolution of Big-Game Hunting: Protein, Fat, or Politics

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The ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another has allowed us to create... Read more about Video: The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

Modern humans and our closest-living ape relatives differ in developmental and reproductive biology... Read more about Video: Teeth and Human Evolution

In the late nineteenth century, Charles Darwin proposed that all humans... Read more about Video: Smashing Agassiz’s Boulder

The earliest complex societies found in the Western Hemisphere developed... Read more about Video: Climate, Water, and the Evolution of Early Societies: From the Tropical Maya Lowlands to the Arid Puebloan Southwest

The eruption of the Mount Toba supervolcano in the Indonesian island of Sumatra... Read more about Video: Volcanic Winter, Population Bottlenecks, and Human Evolution