People coming from the north settled South America. The first hunter-gatherers entered the continent from the region of what ...

First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

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It wasn’t just today’s bodies that told the story. Ancient DNA backed it up. The researchers traced the variant through time.

Neanderthal populations suffered a single late genetic bottleneck, refuting long-held theories about their diversity.

Maba 1] is well-known for the Neanderthal-like face, while its neurocranium shows affinities with many hominin taxa, which ...

A study into tooth wear in a group of wild Japanese macaques has significant implications for the study of human evolution, a new study has shown. A study into tooth wear in a group of wild ...

Scientists have successfully extracted ancient proteins from two-million-year-old teeth, a breakthrough providing previously unobtainable details on ...

“That is what it means to be human—to extend who we are.” Clearly Harbisson’s antenna is merely a beginning. But are we on the way to redefining how we evolve? Does evolution now mean not ...

Modern humans were essentially like waves crashing on a beach, slowly but steadily eroding the beach away.” With this vivid ...

The artist unveils lush, memory-infused landscapes in “Nascer da Terra,” her debut solo show at Marianne Boesky Gallery.

Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...