Scientists have discovered what may be the world's oldest set of footprints. The fossil record may be evidence of a four-legged animal's first steps on land 397 million years ago:Scientists tell the journal Nature that t...

Why are humans mostly free of body hair, in compar...  ...rison to other primates? Losing body hair was an evolutionary advantage in that it allowed early hominids to fo...

The first Mr. Potato Head (1952) - via National Institute of Health 1949: A SPUD IS BORN Brooklyn-born toy inventor George Lerner tries to capitalize on kids who like to play with their...

Most explanations of Darwinian evolution refer to genetic material as the manner in which...

Because you Neatorama readers are so smart, you mi...  ...makes someone resistant to malaria. This apparent evolutionary disadvantage has actually survived through the ge...  ...ile sickle cell anemia is the best known of these evolutionary diseases, it is not the only one. Migraines, depr...

How did whales manage to grow so big? And is there...  ...hey may have discovered one of the big ironies in evolution . Lunge-feeding may have allowed whales to become...

Tara Parker-Pope writes in The New York Times abou...  ...researchers that long-distance running is a major evolutionary advantage for humans. The ability to remain cool...  ...run a horse in a 26.2-mile marathon. Why would evolution favor the distance runner? The prevailing theory...  ...n in Africa.[...]...

Is there an evolutionary reason for women to undergo menopause? One theory...

Why did early humans walk upright? Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University has an intriguing hypothesis after studying the oldest human skeleton, of the species Ardipithecus ramidus or "Ardi" for short: it's all...

Fifteen years ago, Berkeley scientist Tim White an...  ...sting that technology was not the trigger for the evolution of nice hominid guys. There have been a couple o...