Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

A newly classified Paranthropus species, P. capensis, has been identified from a 1.4 million-year-old jawbone.

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

It’s been 100 years since Australopithecus africanus was first described in the journal Nature, suggesting that the African continent had been the birthplace of humanity. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown human relative from a 1.4-million-year-old fossilized jawbone, reshaping our ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

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But if Bae and Wu’s analysis is correct, these fossils could hold the key to solving one of human evolution’s biggest mysteries ... have made it clear that there wasn’t a single hominin lineage around ...

But if Bae and Wu’s analysis is correct, these fossils could hold the key to solving one of human evolution’s biggest ... there wasn’t a single hominin lineage around at any point in the ...

In our modern world, accessing food and avoiding disease is a lot easier than it was throughout much of human history. The researchers describe in the paper how they analyzed World Health ...

“This method opens up exciting possibilities for understanding human evolution, and it has the potential to answer crucial questions, for example, when did our ancestors begin to incorporate ...

Evolution = optimization Evolution is the driving force for every organism. Given its environment, an organism adapts, survives, and withstands selective pressure. "Adaptation can be seen as an ...