At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications ... result in the shuffling of taxa and of taxonomic names. An excellent example of this shuffling is the change ...

Until now, the oldest-known human species in Western Europe was the slender-faced Homo antecessor, dating back around 850,000 ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

thanks to a curious mix of features Sarah Kuta Archaeologists have discovered a collection of prehistoric animal bones in Tanzania that suggests early humans figured out how to transfer tool ...

Intelligent Design on Trial" reveals how genetic evidence helped to confirm an important component of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection: the common ancestry of humans and apes.

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

afarensis as "the ape that walked upright" makes it a celebrity species in the story of human evolution. Lucy's pelvis hints that she walked upright on two legs. When her crushed remains were ...

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Fine, more than a little intimidating. It's more than 600 pages, promising to cover 200 million years of human evolution. The young adult adaptation, just released this week, is 200 pages shorter ...

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