For a long time, scientists felt confident in their understanding of the timeline of human evolution. But a recent discovery ...

We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially ...

The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 14, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

“That is what it means to be human—to extend who we are.” Clearly Harbisson’s antenna is merely a beginning. But are we on the way to redefining how we evolve? Does evolution now mean not ...

We also know that a lot of our evolution had to have taken place before the human races diverge because we're pretty much birds of a feather. If you took a bunch of human babies from anywhere ...

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

Overview: In this lesson, students will be introduced to Darwin’s theory of evolution and how it applies to human development throughout earth’s history. In the Introductory Activity ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Evolution explains how the living things on our planet today have slowly developed from simpler life forms that ...

The Human Evolution gallery will be closed between 19 and 23 May while we make some improvements to the cases. We apologise for any inconvenience this might cause. Meet your ancient relatives, trace ...

Briana Pobiners research centers on the evolution of human diets (especially meat-eating) in Africa and Asia, but has included topics as diverse as cannibalism in the Cook Islands and chimpanzee ...