The shape of the human nose has been sculpted in part by climate. “A lot of it depends on the environment that your ancestors grew up in,” says Lauren Butaric, a biological anthropologist at Des ...

What do climates and cultural beauty standards have in common? Both influenced human nose evolution. Climate changes conjure up significant scientific concerns for many people—but how many of us would ...

Once these molecules make their way to a human’s nose, the business of smelling begins. Careful now, children. Don’t get too close! Ah, Jamie, what did I tell you! Well, as long as you’re up ...

Tiny plastic shards and fibers were found in the nose tissue of human cadavers ... “Once present in this structure, there can ...

This hypothesis suggests that during mammalian evolution, the premaxilla—an ancestral jawbone—was lost, and its region was repurposed to form the nose, separating it from the upper jaw.