New ideas about evolution thanks to a knee bone When paleoanthropologist Donald ... upright walking appeared in our ancestry before we saw large brains," Johanson said. In other words, Lucy's ...

The discovery of bone implements that are the oldest ever found, by far, casts light on human evolution. It shows that our hominin ancestors were able to think about and make this technology a lot ...

Are you sitting down? Good, because you may be shocked to learn that evolution can retrace its steps. A recent study of the wrists of modern birds finds that a bone lost from dinosaurs for tens of ...

But sometimes, there are 208. The fabella, a small bone in a tendon behind the knee, was lost over the course of early human evolution, but these days it’s becoming more common, according to a study ...

The astonishingly small adult limb bone discovered in Indonesia rekindles debates about modern humans' ancient relative, Homo floresiensis. The new find offers fresh insights into this diminutive ...

chromosome size and leg length as measured using the tarsus bone. Duchene explains that the new results challenge the notion that a single major factor drives evolution in a group (e.g., flight ...

The discovery of bone implements that are the oldest ever found, by far, casts light on human evolution. It shows that our hominin ancestors were able to think about and make this technology a lot ...

The discovery of bone implements that are the oldest ever found, by far, casts light on human evolution. It shows that our hominin ancestors were able to think about and make this technology a lot ...