A good forensic anthropologist has to be skilled in a lot of things—including archaeological field techniques, functional anatomy, human paleontology (fossils ... The bones of the upper body, for ...

The human skeleton is made up of more than 200 bones that give protection and support and allow the body to move. The skeleton gives the body its shape and helps hold it up. Without it ...

Scientists Discover Remains of a Baby With a Nearly Complete Skull, It's 150,000 Years Older Than the Lucy Specimen ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

All mammals have skeletons, like this cat. Many animals have skeletons to support and protect their body and to help it move. The human skeleton is made of bones which grow as we grow. Your bones ...

Each year, students with a passion to learn more about the human body can join the advanced ... Members of the team earn upper-division biology credits (BIOL 423 and 424) and spend two semesters ...

Lucy’s physical proportions—long arms, short legs, and a stocky upper body ... size and skeletal structure. “These findings support the hypothesis that key features in the human body ...