Humans split from our closest African ape relatives in the genus Pan around six to seven million years ago. We have features that clearly link us with...
The evolution of the human body’s size and shape has gone through four stages, says an international group of anthropologists from the United States,...
A new study published in the journal Diversity and Distributions reveals what the world map of mammals would look like if Homo sapiens had never existed.
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A fossil specimen unearthed at the Philip Tobias Korongo site, Olduvai Gorge, could be the oldest ‘anatomically modern’ human hand bone, says an international...
A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience has revealed an intrinsic biological difference between males and females in the molecular regulation...
The world’s population, now 7.3 billion, is expected to reach the 11 billion mark by 2100, according to revised population projections released yesterday...
A team of scientists has found that wild bonobos (Pan paniscus), our closest living primate relatives, communicate in a similar manner to human babies.
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Those who are born to parents from diverse genetic backgrounds tend to be faster-thinking and taller than others, a new study led by Dr Peter Joshi of...
A new study led by Dr Sabrina Engesser from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, has revealed that the chestnut-crowned babbler (Pomatostomus ruficeps)...
Genetic analysis of the mandible of an anatomically modern Homo sapiens who lived in what is now Romania between 42,000 and 37,000 years ago reveals that...
A new genomic analysis of people currently living in Egypt and Ethiopia suggests that Eurasians originated when early Africans moved north – through...
According to a new study published in the journal Child Development, infants are capable of understanding abstract relations like ‘same’ and ‘different.’
Babies...
A new study of the bones of hundreds of humans who lived during the past 33,000 years in Europe finds the rise of agriculture and a corresponding fall...
According to new research from the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Nevada, exposure to galactic cosmic rays may have long-term...
Chins of anatomically modern humans don’t come from mechanical forces such as chewing, but instead result from an evolutionary adaptation involving face...
A new study published online March 26 in the Journal of Human Evolution suggests that the genus Homo has come in different sizes since its origins over...
People born when there was low solar activity lived longer on average than those born during times when there was more solar activity, according to a study...
According to a new study led by Patrick Roberts of the University of Oxford, UK, early human foragers relied primarily on rainforest resources from at...
