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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 ...
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Human fossils unearthed in Casablanca shed new light on a key phase of human evolution

Human fossils uncovered in a cave at the Thomas I quarry near Casablanca are offering fresh insight into a critical phase of ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery has started to unravel. How 2025 tipped the scales

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.
The Conversation

Smaller brains? Fewer friends? An evolutionary biologist asks how AI will change humanity’s future

Rob Brooks receives funding from the Australian Research Council. What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied ...
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How Dogs Became Humanitys First & Most Enduring Partner: A 17,000-Year Story of Shared Evolution

The domestication of dogs began at least 17,000 years ago, marking the first major interspecies relationship in human history ...