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“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

DNA sequences for the chimpanzee, orangutans and more will help scientists to determine what sets humans apart from other ...

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The jawbone fragment was pulled up during a fishing expedition in the Penghu Channel, located near the Taiwan Strait.

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

The enlightened truth of the role of fire in human evolution. Illustration by Paul Garland The next time you find yourself lost in thought while gazing at a fireplace ablaze or even a solitary ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans ...

The acclaimed Wits Sterkfontein Caves, a cornerstone of human evolutionary research, officially reopened to the public on ...

Throughout most of human history, evolution progressed slowly. Small genetic changes took thousands of years to permeate populations. Natural selection was intentional, reactive, and gradual.