Feature Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the cognitive abilities of our archaic human relatives ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood group systems. Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in ...

Figure 1: Homo floresiensis in the context of the evolution and dispersal of the genus Homo. Could LB1 be a pygmy H. sapiens? Again, no. Compared with a human skull scaled to less than a third of ...

To get a sense of when this diversity cropped up during human evolution, the researchers also compared the DNA of modern humans to that of a Neanderthal individual and of a Denisovan, another ...

This roundup of energy news headlines comes from our Northeast Energy News newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox each morning. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signs two energy bills into law, including ...

New research raises the possibility that recent human history involved far more dynamic evolution than previously thought. In Darwinian biology, the classic conception of natural selection is a ...

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 ...

The finding raises new questions about the evolution of the earliest reptiles. Marcin Ambrozik Scientists in Australia have identified the earliest known tracks of a reptile-like animal ...

Abstract: This work-in-progress innovative practice paper presents an interactive visual map tool called 1 GenSuccess, designed for first-generation computer science students. First-generation college ...

This has an implication on the history of human evolution given that we ... but if the new timelines are correct, the fossil footprints findings suggest that the evolution into land-based animals ...

A discovery in Australia reveals fossil footprints that alter the timeline of tetrapod evolution. These findings suggest the early evolution of tetrapods might have occurred in Gondwana, challenging ...