The human chin has been fertile ground for arguments between scientists over its purpose. As with testicles, there are half a dozen plausible ideas to explain the evolution of the human chin.

Thanks to the uniqueness of the Homo sapiens chin, while we have a rich set of possible explanations for its evolutionary purpose, in the absence of convergent evolution, we have no sensible way of ...

5 fast facts about human evolution Humans and chimpanzees shared an ancestor 7 million years ago. All humans today are descended from people who evolved in Africa. Evolving to walk on two feet has ...

Science The downsides of human evolution Kate Lunau’s latest dispatch from the AAAS meeting By Kate Lunau February 15, 2013 ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

Fossils of ancient human relatives suggest the beginning of the evolution of apes and humans occurred in Europe, not Africa, says a University of Toronto anthropologist. The fossils of the oldest ...

Evolution: Theory of How Humans Got Our Noses Challenged Published Mar 05, 2025 at 1:24 PM EST Updated Mar 05, 2025 at 9:22 PM EST By Ian Randall ...

The human chin has been fertile ground for arguments between scientists over its purpose. As with testicles, there are half a dozen plausible ideas to explain the evolution of the human chin.

Human evolution FAQs Pictures Human evolution Quick facts about human evolution Oldest discovered Homo sapiens skeletons: 315,000 years old Where these early fossils were found: Jebel Irhoud, Morocco ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain—have been assembled in fits and starts over the 4 billion years of ...