Newly published research appearing in the journal Nature (Ragsdale, A. P. et al., “A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa,” Nature [2023]) proposes a new interpretation regarding the ...
In testing the genetic material of current populations in Africa and comparing against existing fossil evidence of early Homo sapiens populations there, researchers have uncovered a new model of human ...
Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...
A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...
An unidentified early hominin fossil that might be a new species confirms that Australopithecus and Homo species lived in the same region of Africa in the same time frame. When you purchase through ...
Up until recently, the consensus was that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were separate species. But most humans carry about 2% of Neanderthal DNA, challenging the view that we are different. Other ...
In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...
Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...
Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the Neanderthals and Denisovans that our ancestors met ...
A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially believed to belong to Homo erectus, is now thought to be part of the Asian longi clade, closely linked to the Denisovans, which ...
The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big clues to the causes of their demise. This reconstruction of a Neanderthal ...