New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...
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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 ...
A growing number of discoveries are reshaping long-held ideas about human evolution, from unexpectedly early stone tools to ...
Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...
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 ...
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. In a paper published in the Oxford ...
A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...
Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...
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