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A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Multiple "Homo" lineages existed during the Middle Pleistocene period, each of which had diverse physical forms, according to ...

Artist's impression of a supernova. By ESO/M. Kornmesser/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY My hypothesis is that remnants of a supernova – an exploding star – had an impact on the Earth’s past climate, causing ...

Lauren Schroeder has loved dinosaurs since age 3 and bones since she was 10. In her second year of university, she started studying the early evolution of the Homo genus and it turned into her Ph.D.

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...