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 ...

Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths and the weaknesses of a body plan inherited from distant ancestors, giving us an efficient and graceful gait and a range of painful problems from ...

Two human skeletons found during a beach clean ... suggesting that they had very well-developed upper body muscle and could even have been a shipwrecked mariner. She added: "The bones suggest ...

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 ...