The discovery of unusual markings on the teeth of wild Japanese macaques may have significant implications for our understanding of human evolution, according to a new study. Up until now these signs ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

Recent analysis of ancient antelope teeth has provided unexpected insights into the lives of early humans, challenging long-held assumptions about their daily activities and environments. These ...

Ian Towle receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC DP240101081). Luca Fiorenza receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC DP240101081). For decades, small grooves on ...

For nearly a hundred years, scientists have been trying to understand the remains of Paranthropus robustus, an ancient relative of early humans. This species, which walked upright, lived in southern ...

"This edited volume is based on a Dental Paleoanthropology symposium held in May 2005 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, germany"--P. xv. Dental evolution and dental ...

Then, around 2 million years ago, the team noticed that evolution started to catch up. The teeth of later human ancestors like Homo habilis and Homo ergaster showed a spurt of change. Their molars ...

"Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had any effect upon it?

A lost chapter in human evolution has been discovered among a collection of teeth that dates back 2.8 million years. Researchers from Arizona State University announced that they have found a ...

"This discovery confirms the hypothesis that behavioral adaptations, such as the deliberate choice to eat new foods, can precede morphological changes, playing a key role in evolution." In a recently ...