The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if dinosaurs never went extinct and changed human evolution, imagining ...

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Recent discoveries have reshaped the human evolutionary timeline, from older stone tools to newly identified human species ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

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Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Since the turn of the millennium, our understanding of our ancestors and extended cousins has shifted dramatically, thanks to ...

Learn how a 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus jaw from Ethiopia’s Afar region is reshaping scientists’ understanding of early ...

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...