luzonensis, H. longi, and H. juluensis highlight how new perspectives are unraveling complexities in the human evolutionary tree. For decades, researchers lumped eastern Asian hominin fossils into ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, ...

Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

Researchers have innovatively merged protein structural data with genetic sequences to construct evolutionary trees, ...

Lucy, an early human ancestor, could run upright but much slower than modern humans. New simulations show that muscle and ...

This discovery adds to the growing complexity of our evolutionary history. Discoveries in decades have transformed the human family tree into a tangled web of interrelated branches. The Juluren ...

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data from ...

The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of Australopithecus afarensis, the early human ancestor famously represented by ...

A study in June by Elodie Freymann and colleagues collected plant extracts from 13 species of trees and herbs in ... via Getty Images Often in human evolution, scientists only focus on the ...