Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being ...

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

Now researchers are learning that they have also evolved another remarkable genetic adaptation since their ancestors first ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils ...

Environmental Variability Promotes the Evolution of Cooperation Among ... Hints at Early Development of Abstract Reasoning in Human Ancestors Mar. 5, 2025 — The oldest collection of mass ...

“There was a common ancestor to monkeys and apes that ... “downcliming” appears to be significant in the evolution of apes and early humans. “Our study broaches the idea of downclimbing ...

Although stone tools get much of the attention in human evolution, ancient tools were ... archaeological sites can shed light on when our ancestors migrated to new places outside of Africa.

This term refers to early human ancestors who are associated with the ... has revealed insights into our evolution. Stock image of a chimpanzee. A study of chimps in Guinea (not pictured) has ...

The debate over whether she was our ancestor, a grandmother to humanity and the missing link between apes and humans, began instantaneously. Debates over human evolution weren’t confined to the ...