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A study into tooth wear in a group of wild Japanese macaques has significant implications for the study of human evolution, a new study has shown. A study into tooth wear in a group of wild ...

The curious minds at What If illustrate how Earth's entire evolutionary timeline could unfold in only 10 minutes.

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

In this video, I explain the difference between hominids and hominins, including the timeline of when the hominins split off from the hominids and the significance of this distinction. I cover the ...

This recalibration of the origin of reptiles impacts the whole timeline of tetrapod evolution. The tetrapod crown-group node must be older than the earliest amniotes, because it is a deeper ...

To get a sense of when this diversity cropped up during human evolution, the researchers also compared the DNA of modern humans to that of a Neanderthal individual and of a Denisovan, another ...

Our new discovery, published today in Nature, details ancient fossil footprints found in Australia that upend the early evolution timeline of all tetrapods. It also suggests major parts of the story ...

Imagine your employer wants to reward you for your great work. They ask, “Would you rather have $2,000 or use that money to visit our Paris office for a few weeks?” Which would you choose? For ...