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, variously known by the terms anthropogeny...

selection in human evolution. In turn, they may have permitted the development of human capacities such as emotional communication. However, humans also have...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

"Ejaculate quality, testes size and sperm competition in primates". Journal of Human Evolution. 17 (5): 479–488. doi:10.1016/0047-2484(88)90037-1. Mautz...

are used in the context of human evolution, to distinguish: "robust" vs. "gracile" australopithecines, see Paranthropus "robust" archaic humans vs. "gracile"...

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

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

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...

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

of the muscle's absence is that humans inherited the muscle through common descent, and numerous animals that humans share a common ancestor with (such...

in this manner. Snakes do not ordinarily prey on humans. Unless startled or injured, most snakes prefer to avoid contact and will not attack humans....

whole upper surface. The underside of the animal consists of a single muscular "foot". Although molluscs are coelomates, the coelom tends to be small...

therapeutic application in treating muscle wasting diseases such as muscular dystrophy. The gene encoding myostatin was discovered in 1997 by geneticists...

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...

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

for phonation. In humans, the larynx is descended, it is positioned lower than in other primates. This is because the evolution of humans to an upright...

underwater and to provide calcium for eggshell formation. Alligators have muscular, flat tails that propel them while swimming. The two kinds of white alligators...

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...

The human genome is a complete set of nucleic acid sequences for humans, encoded as DNA within the 23 chromosome pairs in cell nuclei and in a small DNA...

patterns of all terrestrial carnivores. Cats have retractile claws, slender muscular bodies and strong flexible forelimbs. Their teeth and facial muscles allow...

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

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

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