In this video, I explain the difference between Hominids and Hominins, including the timeline of when hominins split from ...

New research has revealed an incredible discovery: modern humans carry 20% of their genetic material from a mysterious ...

2024 — A new study shows that the patchwork of different ecosystems found in mountainous regions played a key role in the evolution of ... Fossils and Fires: Insights Into Early Modern Human ...

(Figure 3). There remains little consensus on the timing and tempo of the evolution of modern humans, and new fossil and archaeological data continually reshape, revise, and complicate current ...

This change potentially contributed to the divergence of modern humans from Neanderthals and Denisovans, shaping the course of human evolution. Senior author Yun-Xin Fu, a theoretical population ...

One model of hominin evolution is illustrated by the phylogeny ... and cultural changes that gave rise to modern humans. Thus, taxonomy in itself is not of direct interest. Coupled with its ...

afarensis as "the ape that walked upright" makes it a celebrity species in the story of human evolution ... her pelvis looked much like a modern woman's. Broad, fan-shaped bones on either side ...

Early humans had almost no hope of surviving severe burns, so evolution may have prioritised the selection of genes that heal ...

Standing proud in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery are two of the most scientifically accurate reconstructions that exist of a Neanderthal and early modern human. Find out how these lifelike ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

In the modern context the flip side of his hypothesis is that we may be victims of our own success. We have gotten so good at processing foods that for the first time in human evolution ...