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

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

Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the evolution of ... 650,000 years ago, modern humans diverged from ...

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 ...

But modern humans and chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, are separated by roughly six million years of evolution, ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Some scholars believe modern humans may have originated in multiple ... director of Spain's National Research Center on Human Evolution, called the site "one of the most significant discoveries ...

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

They date back to around 300,000 years ago – a period between archaic Homo erectus and modern Homo ... Asia in their evolution process towards Homo sapiens – today’s humans.