Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of ...

Many people are familiar with the concept of natural selection and “survival of the fittest.” While modern humans may look ...

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

Abstract: Sparsely single-point human parsing aims at segmenting the human body into fine-grained categories via weak point-level labels (e.g., point-level, scribble-level, or image-level, etc). The ...

Between 2 million and 3 million years ago, humans appeared in Africa — but identifying them in the fossil record is turning out to be surprisingly difficult. When you purchase through links on our ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

A major climate simulation covering the last 2 million years is used alongside more than 3,000 fossils and archaeological records to explore how precipitation and temperature shifts shaped the ...

The ancestor of apes was long thought to come from East Africa, but newly discovered fossils in Egypt may prompt a rethink. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...