Many people hold the view that evolution in modern humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists ...

Innovation in Stone Tool Technology Involved Multiple Stages at the Time of Modern Human Dispersals Feb. 7, 2024 — A new study illuminates the cultural evolution that took place approximately ...

Meet your ancient relatives, 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 populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

(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 ...

Lucy's foot bones show that she had similar feet to modern humans but with much more curved toes. Many human-like fossils that provide additional evidence for human evolution were found by the ...

"The facial structure and mandible show early evolution toward modern humans, including a flat face, high eye sockets, slender skull, and a jawbone that displays the early development of a chin ...

"Some scholars believe modern humans may have originated in ... Maria Martinon-Torres, director of Spain's National Research Center on Human Evolution, called the site "one of the most significant ...

Given her numerous contributions to the field of human evolution through the analysis of both archaic and early modern human ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

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 ...