Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

A fossilized jawbone found off the coast of Taiwan more than 20 years ago belonged to a group of ancient humans, called the ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

In addition to their analysis of human evolutionary history ... to explore how their findings relate to other discoveries in anthropology, such as fossil evidence from Africa that suggests ...

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...

The fact that humans walk on two legs is likely the reason we have developed our rhythmic, musical, and linguistic abilities, ...

Chimpanzees select materials for tools based on flexibility, revealing early engineering instincts linked to human tool ...

Drastic declines in biodiversity due to human activities present risks to understanding animal behaviors such as tool use, according to new research. Shrinking animal populations make the study of ...

In addition to their analysis of human evolutionary history, they applied the cobraa ... They also plan to explore how their findings relate to other discoveries in anthropology, such as fossil ...