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07/15/2018 / By Michelle Simmons

Are your hands always cold? If so, you may need more muscle mass

Have you ever wondered why your hands always get cold? It may be because you need more muscle mass. A study published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology revealed that muscle mass maintains heat temperature in the hands when exposed to extremely cold temperatures. “Hands have a large surface area-to-volume ratio, which can be […]

12/07/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

The evolution of body size: New study explores how height and weight of humans has changed over time

Have you ever wondered why people are of different heights and weights? A new large-scale study attempted to answer this by exploring the evolutionary patterns in humans. For the study, researchers from the University of Cambridge analyzed the height and weight of 311 hominin specimens, the ancestral lineage of which Homo sapiens alone still exist, dating from […]

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