A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

The identification of this genomic variant sheds light on human evolution, as well as providing insight into common genetic ...

Genetic Variant Identified That Shaped the Human Skull Base Apr ... 7, 2024 — A new study illuminates the cultural evolution that took place approximately 50,000 to 40,000 years ago, coinciding ...

Meet your ancient relatives, trace the origins and evolution of our species, and explore what makes us human. Embark on a seven-million-year journey, from the first hominins to the last surviving ...

and theories of brain evolution have been enriched by historical data on brain sizes and shapes from the endocasts of skulls in an accumulating fossil record. Many of the structural and functional ...

The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the century. The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925. Found in South Africa, the skull belonged to a child who ...

The find at first bolsters the argument for human evolution -- in the 1920s, a model of the skull is even brought to the Scopes trial by the defense -- but in the 1950s the fossil is revealed as a ...

They used the Harbin skull, also known as 'Dragon Man,' which is a 150,000-year-old nearly complete human skull discovered in China in 1933. Paleoartist John Gurche utilized fossils and genetic ...

Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in ... but possessed a relatively small ape-like skull. Lucy's foot bones show that she had similar feet ...

The "Yunxian Man" fossil human skulls are the most complete ones found in Eurasia for the same era, providing key evidence for the study of the evolution of Homo erectus in East Asia, according to ...