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A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.
The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, continues to capture human imagination.
Human evolution is a complex topic that's easy to misunderstand and many myths persist about the past, present, and future of the human species. Subscribe ...
If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...
Human Evolution 'Huge surprise' reveals how some humans left Africa 50,000 years ago. Archaeology Human ancestor was in Eurasia nearly 2 million years ago, cut marks on animal bones suggest.
Human genetic diversity and evolution rely on new mutations and exchange of DNA between chromosomes during the generation of sex cells, in a process called recombination. Recombination manifests ...
A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...
An ancient skull dating back 300,000 years is unlike any other premodern human fossil ever found, potentially pointing to a new branch in the human family tree, according to new research.
The nature of human evolution has to change.” The study was published Monday in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world’s longest-running science journal.