One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...
The Lucy fossil’s role in human evolution is debated: new discoveries question whether she was truly our direct ancestor.
The genus Australopithecus (an ape-like human ancestor) came right before the genus Homo —our present classification of modern humans and their close relatives. Only the Homo sapiens species still ...
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The top human evolution discoveries of 2025, from the intriguing Neanderthal diet to the oldest Western European face fossil
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...
Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and place ...
Science. Harvard study reverses Alzheimer's for the first time in mice Science. Surprise at the results of an investigation in the Pacific: the deepest ecosystem on our planet is discovered Omar ...
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The ancient skeleton is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. The virtually complete Australopithecus fossil "Little Foot" is displayed at the University of the Witwatersrand in ...
Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and place ...
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