Feature Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the cognitive abilities of our archaic human relatives ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood group systems. Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in ...

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 ...

New research raises the possibility that recent human history involved far more dynamic evolution than previously thought. In Darwinian biology, the classic conception of natural selection is a ...

Briana Pobiners research centers on the evolution of human diets (especially meat-eating) in Africa and Asia, but has included topics as diverse as cannibalism in the Cook Islands and chimpanzee ...

The finding raises new questions about the evolution of the earliest reptiles. Marcin Ambrozik Scientists in Australia have identified the earliest known tracks of a reptile-like animal ...

This has an implication on the history of human evolution given that we are direct descendants ... some 390 million years ago. “The timeline of these events has seemed clear-cut: the first tetrapods ...

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A discovery in Australia reveals fossil footprints that alter the timeline of tetrapod evolution. These findings suggest the early evolution of tetrapods might have occurred in Gondwana, challenging ...

To deepen their investigation into human brain evolution, the researchers are now turning to organoids—miniature human brain models grown in lab dishes. These models allow for a closer look at how ...

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 ...