One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of ...
In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...
A study analyzed the DNA of feral dogs living near Chernobyl, compared the animals to others living 10 miles away, and found ...
The American researcher talks to EL PAÍS about how walking upright was the starting point for our brain enlargement and our ...
Footprints from 1.5mil years ago made by two different species of human ancestors were made within hours on the same spot—a ...
More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed ...
Brain size increased gradually within each ancient human species rather than through sudden leaps between species.
Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.
Engels applied the logic of materialist dialectics to the problem of human evolution with important, though rarely ...
Ancient footprints frozen in time have revealed new secrets about human evolution and provided the first evidence of two ...
The footprints are the first clear evidence that the two hominin species shared a habitat, raising questions about whether ...
A new study reveals that modern humans, Neanderthals, and other relatives evolved larger brains through gradual changes ...