Few athletes are known not just for breaking records, but for being record-breaking themselves. Their enormous hands or ...

Learn how fossils show human ancestors did not grow bigger in a straight line, but split into larger and smaller evolutionary ...

The 2-Million-Year Jump: The primary transition to modern human body proportions was a sudden evolutionary leap 2 to 2.5 million years ago, driven by Homo erectus/ergaster and Homo rudolfensis, rather ...

Modeling isn’t just a matter of strutting your stuff on the catwalk—it also means that you need mathematical precision when it comes to taking your body measurements. Having precise measurements is ...

Anthropogenically-driven climate warming is a hypothesized driver of animal body size reductions. Less understood are effects of other human-caused disturbances on body size, such as urbanization. We ...

All these hypotheses are united by the presence of environmental challenges faced by hominin species, which need to be overcome by directional adaptations in body and brain size. Despite differences ...