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

The only remaining autonomous 'jumping gene' can only attach to, and stitch a copy of itself into, DNA when it builds up into large clusters and only as cells divide.

Stone tools dating back 150,000 years have been found in the jungle, revealing early human occupation in dense tropical ...

and even the evolution of the human brain. Li Haipeng, a computational biologist at the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health and another senior author, emphasized that this discovery is just ...

Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation ... which attributes improvement in human cognitive abilities to severe ...

What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that may have shaped the course of human evolution. This period, called the Laschamps excursion, lasted around 2,000 years.

This recalibration of the evolutionary timeline provides a more accurate context for understanding the rate and pattern of bird evolution, suggesting that once the avian body plan emerged, ...

This recalibration of the evolutionary timeline provides a more accurate context for understanding the rate and pattern of bird evolution, suggesting that once the avian body plan emerged, ...

Primates have evolved over 65 million years, from early ancestors to over 300 species today—including us. This is the incredible story of our ancient origins. Senate Democratic leader Jason ...

A recent study revealed that the average human brain may contain the equivalent of a whopping five plastic bottle caps' worth of microplastics. The New York Times took a deeper dive into the topic on ...

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