The Dawn of Mankind Our journey begins in the depths of time, where our earliest ancestors roamed the earth. These ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in modern humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large ... Group That Interbred With Modern Day Humans Nov. 8, 2024 — Scientists ...

Dr. Baumann and his colleagues hypothesize that ancient humans may have hunted and killed more animals than they could ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

An experimental study of modern chimpanzees has documented patterns ... The study, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, demonstrates that the process used by a group of chimps to select ...

Standing proud in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery are two of the most scientifically accurate reconstructions that exist of a Neanderthal and early modern human. Find out how these lifelike ...

Some time prior to this last common ancestor's existence, the changes occurred in our PAR2 region that helped define a major milestone in modern human evolution. The question is, did it happen before ...

trace the origins and evolution of our species, and explore what makes us human. Embark on a seven-million-year journey, from the first hominins to the last surviving human species: us. Investigate ...