When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals interbred with human ancestors ...

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By studying antelope fossils, researchers can revisit long-standing questions about how the Cradle of Humankind’s environment ...

Sixty-five million years ago, tiny primates clung to survival in the shadows of dinosaurs’ extinction. Today, their descendants command the planet. This is the improbable, awe-inspiring saga of human ...

This very lifestyle, of standing and walking on two legs unlike some of our primate predecessors, may have been key to supercharging the survival and reproductive advantage of our ancestral species.

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Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with ...

Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

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The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...