Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...
Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution of malaria in Africa in the last 70,000 years could hav ...
Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning “large head people”—they’ve recently been introduced to science under the ...
Chinese scientists obtain the first molecular evidence of interbreeding between our ancestor ‘Homo erectus’ and the ...
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Evolution by natural selection has still been shaping the human species over the last 10,000 years: Here's how
When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the beastly forces of natural selection lost their ability to shape our species, ...
What took so long for humans to appear on Earth? The Earth is 4.6 billion years old, and life began about 4 billion years ago, yet humans—the only intelligent, technological species we know of in the ...
In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...
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In 1921, a miner’s dynamite blast in Zambia unearthed a face that rewrote the map of human evolution
Miners in Zambia unearthed the Broken Hill skull in 1921, a fossil initially baffling scientists with its mix of modern and ...
The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...
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