Why curly hair was an evolutionary advantage Curls may be why humans have such big brains. A new study—involving a mannequin wearing wigs in a wind tunnel—reveals how.

Most people would think Africans are mostly dark skinned, with brown eyes and black hair. But deep in the South Pacific, on the Solomon Islands, lives an African-descended tribe that defies this norm.

How has the tradition of hair braiding evolved over time? "So now we've gotten creative," Golden said. "They've added color, they have it where if you want to have regular braids, have human hair in ...

But that may not be the full story. New research published in Nature in May aimed to shed new light on human origins in Africa and beyond.

Despite the absence of direct evidence from ancient human fossils, the significance of this study lies in pinpointing the functional FTO variant—rs1421085 T>C—as potentially the inaugural ...