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Clues to Ape (and Human) Evolution Can Be Seen in Sinuses
This X-ray of a human skull highlights the main nasal cavity (orange) and the sinuses: frontal (pink), ethmoid (yellow), maxillary (green) and sphenoid (purple). Asian apes do not have frontal or...
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The Mystery of Human Blood Types
Blood banks run blood type tests before blood is sent to hospitals for transfusions. Image: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jake Berenguer/Wikicommons Everyone’s heard of...
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Early Hominids Had a Taste for Grass
The 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus bahrelghazali from Chad probably ate grass, just like the modern baboons seen here do. Image: GregRob/Flickr The nearly 2-million-year-old Paranthropus boisei...
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How Death Played a Role in the Evolution of Human Height
A reconstruction of Homo erectus, the first hominid to reach a modern height. Image: smelieli/Flickr Perhaps no other human trait is as variable as human height. At 5’4″, I’d be dwarfed standing next...
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Tree Climbers, Wood Eaters, and More: The Top 10 Human Evolution Discoveries...
Fossils discovered in Kenya indicate multiple species of Homo lived roughly two million years ago. One of the new jaws is pictured here with a previously found Homo rudolfensis skull. Image: © Photo...
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