In the new study, Zollikofer and his team examined several teeth that were uncovered over 20 years ago in the Caucasus ...

The well-researched example of co-evolution of dairy farming and ... The task for the human evolutionary sciences now is to complete the connections from genotype to phenotype to selection ...

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

This adaptation to hypoxia showcases human evolution in response to extreme ... 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), shows how the physiological characteristics ...

But after two decades of research, and no small amount of controversy, we can be sure that Homo floresiensis wasn’t really anything close to a short human with big feet and a penchant for seed ...