The growth of human shoulders slows down just before birth and speeds up thereafter; this alleviates the problem of shoulder dystocia. Computed tomography was used to obtain cross-sectional ...

NFL quarterbacks make it look so easy — and in an evolutionary sense perhaps it is. Scientists say the human shoulder evolved to throw things, unlike those of our ape cousins, whose anatomy is more ...

A new study puts the burden of humanity's evolution on our shoulders. Like, literally on our shoulders. By examining the shoulder blades of two early human Australopithecus species, researchers ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 8, 2015 -- If you have survived years of pushing, pulling, lifting, lowering and rotational forces assaulting your shoulders, thank your healthy articular cartilage. It is ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9 (UPI) --As one new study shows, the ape-like shoulders of early humans highlight the transition from trees to tools. Humans evolved from apes. That much is certain. But zeroing ...

What the last common ancestor between humans and African apes looked like has remained unclear. A new study now shows that important clues lie in the shoulder. As early humans increasingly left ...

Little Foot, a nearly complete hominid skeleton painstakingly excavated from rock inside a South African cave, shouldered a powerful evolutionary load. This 3.67-million-year-old adult female sports ...