A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

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The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

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A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and thrives.

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...

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Fossil records and archaeological findings suggest a correlation between the two, but they do not yet provide definitive proof that the evolution of the brain and hands was directly linked in a ...