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The Top Human Evolution Discoveries of 2025, From the Intriguing Neanderthal Diet to the Oldest Western European Face Fossil
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
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Gut microbes are reshaping how scientists view brain evolution
For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...
Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...
WASHINGTON — Fossils have long provided snapshots of the human family tree, but a new find in Africa gives scientists a kind of mini home movie showing man’s primal development. Because the ...
Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...
This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...
On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...
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 ...
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