A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 1.8 million years is rewriting the story of human evolution.
More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped human evolution. It's just over a decade since ...
The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was ...
For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...
New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that ...
Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...
A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human ...