Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...

What made humans behave differently to their closest relatives? Researchers have long sought an answer in a handful of genetic differences between Homo sapiens and our close relatives the Neanderthals ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and became smaller and less aggressive.

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This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

For hundreds of thousands of years, Homo sapiens evolved under the steady pressures of natural environments—savannas, forests, coasts, deserts, and river valleys that shaped everything from our ...

Many people believe that we humans have conquered nature through the wonders of civilization and technology. Some also believe that because we are different from other creatures, we have complete ...

We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you can't see, such as what foods different people are able to digest. When ...

BREAKING: Baltimore Ravens fire head coach John Harbaugh after 18 seasons news Alerts There are no new alerts at this time In the latest twist in human evolution, scientists have discovered that a ...

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