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

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From this trove of genetic information, researchers have already identified dozens of examples of relatively recent evolution. Anatomically modern humans migrated from Africa sometime between ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

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

Yet research into cognitive evolution—a field of study that ... made it safe for early hominids to indulge in more REM (modern humans spend 25 percent of sleep in REM, compared with up to ...

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 human species: us. Investigate ...