Muscle synergies represent coordinated activation patterns of groups of muscles that simplify the control of complex movements. This concept suggests that the central nervous system reduces the ...

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

Our bodies are not perfectly designed, but are a living archive of evolution. Anatomy reveals a historical record of ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...