South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

In 2018, a team of researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand launched workshops on human evolution for grade 12 learners (in the final year of secondary school) in South Africa’s ...

New research suggests that the unique way human placentas produce sex hormones during pregnancy may have been a key driver ...

Christopher Nolan's ‘The Odyssey' Teaser Leaks Online Amid Theatrical Rollout: Here's What Happens in the First Footage ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

The bold question-askers at What If examine how merging with machines could mark the next phase in human evolution.

Researchers suggest that hormones produced during pregnancy, such as testosterone and estrogen, may have significantly ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

Recent discoveries using lab-grown brain organoids, or "mini-brains," suggest that testosterone increases brain size while ...