Today, we can only find three elephant species, residing in Africa and Asia. However, Earth’s past was marked by a much wider array of proboscidean… Read More »New fossil discovery provides insights into early proboscidean diversity
An analysis of the genetic variation in modern human genomes, conducted by Haipeng Li and colleagues at the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, suggests… Read More »Human population may have plummeted to 1300 around 900,000 years ago
A groundbreaking discovery has shed light on humanity’s past struggles. Researchers from China, Italy, and the United States have revealed a hidden chapter in our… Read More »New method reveals severe bottleneck in human population
Over the past 150 years, since Charles Darwin’s initial ideas about human origins in Africa, the understanding of early human evolution has expanded greatly, but… Read More »Fossil apes provide key insights into human origins
In the vicinity of an ancient mining town in Central Europe, renowned for its striking turquoise quarry water, lies Rudapithecus. For a span of 10… Read More »Fossil pelvis suggests deeper ancestral origins of human bipedalism
The Aurignacians were a fascinating and culturally sophisticated group that emerged in Europe approximately 43,000 years ago. This distinctive culture is renowned for its remarkable… Read More »Aurignacians from Europe migrated to Levant 40,000 years ago
New revelations in the realm of human evolution have emerged, shedding light on the mingling of Neandertal DNA with that of modern humans. This groundbreaking… Read More »Neandertal DNA in modern humans: New insights from facial structure
Researchers from the University of Vienna in Austria and the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, Spain, recently published a groundbreaking study in the journal… Read More »Gorillas share genetic legacy with extinct lineage
Approximately seven million years ago, humans diverged from our closest animal relatives, chimpanzees, establishing a distinct branch on the evolutionary tree. Over the relatively short… Read More »Genetic differences between humans and chimps may explain our big brains
An international team of researchers, led by scientists from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment, has made a… Read More »300,000-year-old human footprints found in Germany
Neanderthals, often depicted as primitive meat-eaters, are receiving a blow to their popular image with a groundbreaking new study. The research, which analyzed bacteria collected… Read More »Revealing Neanderthals’ true diet: Starch-rich foods and the role of cooking in human evolution
Cooking food has been a significant part of human history, predating our own species. Scientists believe that our early human cousins, such as Homo erectus,… Read More »The evolution of cooking: Unearthing ancient culinary practices and the significance of communal feasting in human history
On the final day of the 2017 field season in Kenya, paleoanthropologist Emma Finestone found herself amidst thunder and dark rain clouds. In a rush… Read More »Discovery of ancient tools and hominin molar challenges assumptions on early human evolution