The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 14, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

They proposed a “river network” model of human evolution ... However, this broad label obscures the complexity of their evolutionary history. Genetic evidence reveals deep divergences within ...

Scientists link baker’s yeast evolution to ancient human movements, suggesting we’ve been shaping microbial life far longer ...

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...

Apr. 21, 2025 — An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth ...

Here we have dissected the evolutionary history of CA-CRC using multiregion sequencing. Design Exome sequencing was performed on fresh-frozen multiple regions of carcinoma, adjacent non-cancerous ...

A stunning discovery in southwest China has uncovered 50,000-year-old tools that challenge our understanding of human evolution. “We can try to see if they were doing something similar beforehand that ...

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of ...

Though the reason behind this action is unclear, researchers suggest socially consuming alcohol may have offered evolutionary benefits ... the fragments show signs of human manipulation—though ...