13, 2024 — Babies playfully tease others as young as eight months of age ... the Time of Modern Human Dispersals Feb. 7, 2024 — A new study illuminates the cultural evolution that took ...

Meet your ancient relatives, trace the origins and evolution of our species, and explore what makes us human. Embark on a seven-million-year journey, from the first hominins to the last surviving ...

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa. Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million years ago. Ardi's bones ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations ... offering new insights into the ambitious Ice Age site constructed by hunter-gatherers Sarah ...

He’s best known for popularising the theory of evolution in his book, On the Origin of Species, but Charles Darwin also had some very unsubstantiated ideas about human beings... In a later book ...

Our ancestors still resembled apes nearly 4 millions years later. This includes Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia, from a group called the australopiths.

There is mounting evidence indicating that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary origins and not just a ...

A groundbreaking pilot excavation in the Iraqi desert uncovered over 850 Stone Age artifacts up to 1.5 million years old, shedding new light on human evolution in the Arabian Peninsula. An ...

Human genetic diversity and evolution rely on new mutations and exchange ... and the number of non-crossovers increases rapidly with maternal age, but not with paternal age. We found the rate ...

Apr. 20, 2021 — Researchers examined the shoulder assembly of Little Foot, an Australopithecus that lived more than 3 million years ago, and may have confirmed how our human ancestors used their ...