Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human evolution is, stretching back millions of years to when the first primates ...
More than two decades after scientists first sequenced the entire human genome—all 3 billion base pairs, of DNA code—the ...
New DNA Breakthrough Is Changing What We Know About Human Origins ...
Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, according to new research from Monash University. The study, published in the ...
Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed.
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...
The human family tree is becoming harder to fit into the categories scientists have used for decades. Research from Monash ...
Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical traces in fossil teeth. Experiments suggest this exposure may have driven ...
Natural selection has long been considered the driving force behind human evolution. But a landmark study of 87 fossil skulls spanning the past two million years suggests the story is far more complex ...