Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over ...

Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

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In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists reveal some of the year’s most fascinating findings about human origins Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner An artist's depiction of a person carving a pendant from bones of ...

Human evolution might be more "bizarre" than we once thought, according to a new study. In the past, scientists believed that hominin evolution was largely driven by changes in climate. But now, ...

This research was supported through grants to Tesla Monson's collaborators by the Washington Research Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Much of the data collection for the extant primates ...