A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pre-human fossil "Lucy" from Ethiopia is on display in Europe for the first time. The exhibition at the National Museum in ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

The image in question is genuine and features a gibbon, a primate known as a "lesser ape." Humans are also considered primates but belong to a subset of species known as the "greater apes." Living ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

The study of human skeletal biology has advanced markedly through the integration of high‐resolution imaging, geometric morphometrics and archaeological data. Detailed analysis of long bone ...

"This book arises out of a joint meeting between the Centre for Ecology and Evolution (CEE), University College of London (UCL), and the Linnean Society, held in the meeting rooms of the Linnean ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Vertebrate skeletal tissues exhibit remarkable diversity in both their mechanical properties and evolutionary adaptations. These tissues are finely tuned composite materials where a combination of ...