For a long time, scientists felt confident in their understanding of the timeline of human evolution. But a recent discovery ...

And there are thousands of fossils documenting progressively more human-like species in the evolution of our lineage after it split from the other great apes and later from chimps and bonobos.

Debates over human evolution weren’t confined to the pages of esoteric scientific journals at the time — Johanson and fellow paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey sparred over their differing ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans ...

Júlia Soares d’Oliveira The year 2023 proved to be another exciting 12 months for research in human evolution. Many of the top stories tell us more about the diet and tool use of our early ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

Spending less time on mastication may go hand in hand with human evolution. By Kate Golembiewski Humans spend about 35 minutes every day chewing. That adds up to more than a full week out of every ...

Scientists believe the late Middle Pleistocene, which started around 300,000 years ago, was a pivotal period for the evolution of hominins — species that are regarded as human or closely related ...

The Julurens — or “big head” people — are twisting scientists’ long-accepted understanding of human evolution. How humans came to be is largely understood to have been a linear process ...