Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

A new study is unraveling everything we thought we knew about human evolution. Published on March 18, 2025, in the journal Nature Genetics, “A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral ...

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Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The reconstructed skull of a man who died 12,000 years ago in what is now Vietnam. (photo credit: C.M. Stimpson) Researchers from ...

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

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