Muscular evolution in humans is an overview of the muscular adaptations made by humans from their early ancestors to the modern man. Humans are believed...

hominid subfamily), indicating that human evolution was not linear but weblike. The study of the origins of humans involves several scientific disciplines...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe type of muscular dystrophy predominantly affecting boys. The onset of muscle weakness typically begins around...

In the context of human evolution, vestigiality involves those traits occurring in humans that have lost all or most of their original function through...

The evolution of human bipedalism, which began in primates approximately four million years ago, or as early as seven million years ago with Sahelanthropus...

human evolution for many years, but reasons why humans choose their mates are not fully understood. Sexual selection is quite different in non-human animals...

leg-to-body ratio (long legs) of adult humans as opposed to human infants shows that there is not a holistic trend in humans towards neoteny when compared to...

metabolism, brain function, and skeletal and muscular development. Some genes may have helped immigrating modern humans populations acclimatise faster, such as...

humans are born in a premature biological state. Although sensory organs and skeletal and muscular systems are largely developed prenatally, human babies...

voluntary muscular system and typically are attached by tendons to bones of a skeleton. The skeletal muscle cells are much longer than in the other types...

growth differentiation factor 8, abbreviated GDF8) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MSTN gene. Myostatin is a myokine that is produced and...

researched human penis adaptations are penis size and semen displacement. Evolution has caused sexually selected adaptations to occur in penis size in order...

The human genome is a complete set of nucleic acid sequences for humans, encoded as the DNA within each of the 23 distinct chromosomes in the cell nucleus...

compared to anything found among non-humans, must have appeared fairly suddenly during the course of human evolution. Some theories consider language mostly...

Cro-Magnons or European early modern humans (EEMH) were the first early modern humans (Homo sapiens) to settle in Europe, migrating from western Asia,...

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a type of muscular dystrophy, a group of heritable diseases that cause degeneration of muscle and progressive...

very little muscular tissue, and this exists in its root. The shaft and glans have no muscle fibers. Unlike most other primates, male humans lack a penile...

flying–all the different ways of defying gravity–in imagination and in technology, in humans and in animals. It ranges over many instances of flight including...

characteristic features of the muscular system in humans, connected as it is with the power of maintaining the trunk in the erect posture. Other primates...

greater horns are rough and close to its lateral border, and facilitates muscular attachment. The largest of muscles that attach to the upper surface of...

thus human biology was created. The key aspects of human biology are those ways in which humans are substantially different from other mammals. Humans have...

Howard Henry Tooth (1856–1925). In their original publication, titled “Concerning a Special Form of Progressive Muscular Atrophy,” Charcot and Marie acknowledged...

Sex differences in human physiology are distinctions of physiological characteristics associated with either male or female humans. These differences are...

The stomach is a muscular, hollow organ in the upper gastrointestinal tract of humans and many other animals, including several invertebrates. The Ancient...

stored and concentrated before it is released into the small intestine. In humans, the pear-shaped gallbladder lies beneath the liver, although the structure...

attachment being muscular. The shoulder girdle is the anatomical mechanism that allows for all upper arm and shoulder movement in humans. The shoulder girdle...

intestines, gallbladder, bladder, and rectum. In the thoracic cavity, the heart is a hollow, muscular organ. Splanchnology is the study of the viscera...

skull of bone or cartilage, large brain divided into 3 or more sections, a muscular heart with multiple chambers; an inner ear with semicircular canals; sense...

the modeling of virtual 3D human models, with a simple and complete pose system that includes the simulation of muscular movement. The interface is easy...

seminar Chris tubules in the rete testis from the primary sex cord. Developing on the outside surface of each testis is a Phibro muscular cord called the gubernaculum...