For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

The human body evolved over eons, slowly calibrating to the African savanna on which 98 percent of humankind lived and died. So, too, did the human brain. Evolutionary psychology is the study of ...

Early land vertebrates also evolved lungs, and this transformation ... Again, think of a zebra feeding on the savanna. Because humans walk on two legs, we balance our head atop our spine.

The Sahara Desert, now a harsh, arid landscape, was once a lush, green savanna teeming with life ... adds a new layer to the understanding of human evolution, showing that Neanderthal genes ...

His talk also covers the ways that humans are transforming cats, and how they in turn are transforming the world around them. Dr. Losos is both a scientist and a cat lover. He was born and raised in ...