Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

Who was the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and us modern humans? The last common ancestor of both the Homo sapiens and ...

Recent research led by the University of Bristol has made waves by pushing back the timeline of Earth’s earliest life form by ...

A deep-rooted population structure emerged, suggesting modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the result of a population that split in two about 1.5 million years ago, and then, only 300,000 years ago, ...

All tetrapods descended from a common ancestor that just happened to have limbs with five digits. And over the eons of evolution following that, natural selection worked with variations on ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago. They lived in mosaic habits (a mixture of open and wooded ...

BEIJING -- Compatriots across the Taiwan Strait will attend events honoring China's legendary ancestor Huangdi, or the Yellow ...