Archaeologists in Georgia have discovered a 1.8-million-year-old jawbone at Orozmani, providing insights into early human settlements in Eurasia. The site offers crucial information on the migration ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been radically altered over millions of years to allow us to accomplish our bizarre ...

A new study reveals some of the crucial molecular steps on the path to bipedalism. By Carl Zimmer Charles Darwin unveiled his theory of evolution in 1859, in “On the Origin of Species.” But it took ...

Summary: New research reveals that primates with longer thumbs tend to have larger brains, suggesting that manual dexterity and brain evolution developed together. The study analyzed 94 living and ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study published in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University in Sweden show ...

A REPORT ON August 22nd confirmed what many observers have long feared: parts of the Gaza Strip are now in famine. Analysis by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which monitors ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with a newly identified species of Australopithecus nearly three million years ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? “This new research shows that the image many of us have in our minds of an ape to a ...

The story of human evolution is not a simple ladder from early forms to more advanced ones. For decades, fossils shaped a picture of steady, linear progress – one form giving rise to another in a neat ...