Your body is walking proof of evolution, but some parts have grown unnecessary over time. Here are five useless body parts left over from evolution. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from ...

Why we have body parts we don't need is simple. According to the Harvard Health website, they were most likely necessary at one point but eventually became nonessential through evolution.

Archaeological evidence shows the Magdalenian people from 18,000 years ago likely were engaged in cannibalism. As part of the ...

This much of your body is made ... the theory of evolution in his book, On the Origin of Species, but Charles Darwin also had some very unsubstantiated ideas about human beings ...

All have a set of very similar genes (the homeobox genes) that define their basic body plan ... can yield insights into the process of evolution.

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight ... The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared ...

The very first fossils of this species -- found by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson at Hadar in 1973 -- were the parts of a knee ... species in the story of human evolution.

Human genetic diversity and evolution rely on new mutations and exchange ... and in centromeres, parts of the chromosomes that ensure accurate cell division. This is probably to reduce differences ...

Researchers Unearth 420-Million-Year-Old ‘Living Fossil’ Fish Species, Helped Them to Connect Human Evolution Analysis of 420-million-year-old Coelacanths fossils in Western Australia has provided ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...