Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

"Within the past 50,000 years most of the variation that is seen among human populations evolved," said researcher Jason ...

Two studies came to a similar conclusion, highlighting a single, sustained event of mixing DNA. The findings could impact our ...

Modern chimpanzees select rock tools in similar ways to Oldowan hominins, early humans who used stone tools that date back to ...

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 ...

Dr Huan Shi, from China, proposed evolution began in East Asia where ... By this logic, the archeological finds of early humans with the most genetic similarities both to each other and to ...

Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the ...

including early Homo sapiens," said Wu. This characteristic, along with their diverse physical traits, underscores the complexity of human evolution, particularly in eastern Asia. For decades ...

Footprints from Kenya's Turkana Basin show that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei lived simultaneously 1.5 million years ...

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 ...