From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
The study focused on two unusually complete Neanderthal pelvises. The Dederiyeh infant, though only a toddler, already ...
What if menopause wasn’t the end of fertility but the beginning of a more critical role for women? According to historian and professor Roy Casagranda, evolution didn’t just allow women to live longer ...
Sex and gender in paleoanthropology / Lori D. Hager -- Good science, bad science, or science as usual? Feminist critiques of science / Alison Wylie -- Is primatology a feminist science? / Linda Marie ...
Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...
The human body is often described as a marvel of “perfect design”: elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, when we look closer, a rather different picture emerges. Far from being a ...
South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...