If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

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Design Cells/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Read more. Asteroids: ... told Newsweek that 50,000 years is an "extremely long time" in the course of human evolution, representing more than 1,667 human ...

Virtual reconstruction of the Harbin cranium, a newly discovered human species named Homo longi or ‘Dragon Man’, from Northeast China. EUREKALERT!/AFP via Getty Images ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

The team hopes to publish results this fall in the Journal of Human Evolution. Why it matters Humans are the only species capable of throwing both hard and accurately, which makes evolutionary sense: ...

The turn of the next millennium is still a long way off, but that hasn’t stopped scientists from simulating what future human evolution might look like when the year 3000 hits. The result? A ...

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Professor Graham Coop, Department of Evolution and Ecology and Director of the Center for Population Biology, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his work on ...

Understanding something as complex as human evolution in Africa requires many different people with different perspectives to get the story right, writes guest columnist Dr. Elizabeth (Ebeth) Sawchuk.