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

Evolutionary biologist Huang Shi argues that lack of genetic diversity among East Asians suggests they are real ancestors of ...

D models of Australopithecus afarensis suggest the muscular adaptations that made modern humans better runners.

Around 300,000 years ago, anatomically modern humans emerged in Africa, a pivotal moment in human history. Yet, the roots of ...

While Neanderthals and modern humans lived together in Europe for only a relatively short time, two separate studies found ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago. Here is the history of humanity as we know it today.

New research refines the timeline of interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals, showing it began about 50,500 ...

Meet your ancient relatives, trace the origins and evolution of our species, and explore what makes us human. Embark on a seven-million-year journey, from the first hominins to the last surviving ...

7, 2024 — A new study illuminates the cultural evolution that took place approximately ... have debated whether Neanderthals or modern humans made stone tools that are found at sites across ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Department of Paleobiology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid report that analysis of a ...