In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

The timing and location of our species’ emergence remain unclear for lack of evidence but a new discovery in Morocco brings ...

For decades, the story seemed settled: one early human species left Africa and spread across the world. But a new study ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

As experts study the human fossil record of Asia, many have come to see it as telling a different story than what happened in Europe and Africa. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

New research offers insight into the evolutionary history of amylase genes, which help us eat starchy food. Long before humans ate dinner rolls or french fries, our ancient ancestors carried genes ...

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