One's a cat, the other's a dog, separated by 50 million years of evolution. But when evolutionary biologist Abby Grace Drake and her colleagues scanned 1,810 skulls of cats ... Many other human-made ...

Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...

erectus' and smaller than that of a modern human. The brain was enclosed in a skull that was more rounded than H. erectus'. Fossil remains of archaic Homo sapiens have been found in Africa and Europe.

Both are on display in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery. Explore Neanderthal facts, from looks to lifestyle and abilities. These early humans are far more similar to us than once believed. Listen ...

Pugs, Persian cats, and other smushed-face cats and dogs are more similar to one another than they are to the wild animals ...

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a professor of human paleontology at Complutense University of Madrid in Spain, along with his colleagues characterized this unique collection of specimens from a small chamber within a cave called ...

In the case of domesticated species, evolution happens so rapidly, it can offer insight into evolutionary processes, Drake said. The researchers mapped the skull shapes, compared them and ...

To investigate how far domestication has reshaped skull structure ... move shortly after birth. Because human infants rely so heavily upon adult care, evolution has shaped us to be sensitive ...