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

This year was another full of discoveries in human evolution that help us understand our origins and our closest evolutionary cousins, both living and extinct. With stories of our living ape relatives ...

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

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

July 11, 2024 — Using genomes from 2,000 living humans as well ... Stages at the Time of Modern Human Dispersals Feb. 7, 2024 — A new study illuminates the cultural evolution that took place ...

Modern humans are visible there around 130,000 years ... Historically, studies in human evolution greatly emphasized Europe. While the balance has rightly been redressed to a global perspective ...

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

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 ...

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than earlier species, a new study of human brain evolution has found.

This indicates that the hand of modern man has much earlier origins than had been thought In 1960 tools were found together with the hand bones of a prehuman primate that lived more than a million ...

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 human species: us. Investigate ...