A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating ...

By digitally modeling muscles and tendons for the skeleton of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), researchers determined that our hominin ancestors could run well but topped out around 11 mph.

The study found that unlike other vertebrates where competition generally suppresses speciation after ecological niches are ...

A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating ...

This is still a commonly used depiction of human evolution, with the famous Progress diagram having been published in a book called "Early Man" in 1965 explaining how we grew from apes to modern ...

An international team led by Chinese paleontologists has made significant advances in understanding early life evolution by mapping out, for the first time, a high-resolution biodiversity curve ...

Early examples involved the transfer ... abilities as part of their evolution. These governed the way humans interact with each other. Giving complemented other survival mechanisms, like the ...

Genetic studies have painted a neat picture of human evolution and migration around ... They discovered artefacts of tools made by early human inhabitants — pieces of chert, jasper, chalcedony ...