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On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...
Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...
Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on ...
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A New Theory Puts Parenting at the Center of Human Evolution
But Beekman, along with a growing number of scholars, many of them women, emphasizes familial care in our understanding of ...
The extraordinary evolution of humans is often exemplified by two defining traits: large brains and highly dexterous hands.
The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...
Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner A young chimpanzee looks on during an outing ...
In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with a newly identified species of Australopithecus nearly three million years ...
Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...
Introduction. Rethinking the human revolution: Eurasian and African perspectives / Paul Mellars -- pt. 1. Biological and demographic perspectives on modern human origins. The origin and dispersal of ...
The National Museum of Natural History is among the first eight Smithsonian sites the Trump administration announced it will ...
Throughout most of human history, evolution progressed slowly. Small genetic changes took thousands of years to permeate populations. Natural selection was intentional, reactive, and gradual. However, ...
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