Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...
In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...
Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...
New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.
Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...
Humans are fundamentally technological creatures. We depend on the manufacture and use of tools for our survival to a degree qualitatively greater than any other species. Therefore, an understanding ...
The first major evolutionary change in the human diet was the incorporation of meat and marrow from large animals, which occurred by at least 2.6 million years ago. The diet of the earliest hominins ...
A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.