The researchers from the University of New England in Australia and the East Tennessee State University in the United States found that biting with high force risked damaging jaw joints, indicating ...

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? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating ...

Understanding human evolution often involves looking closely at our DNA. Yet obtaining ancient DNA from fossils older than 300,000 years—especially from Africa—is incredibly challenging.

What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that may have shaped the course of human evolution ... time of the Laschamps excursion, Homo sapiens and Neanderthals coexisted ...

A quiet dig in Romania unearthed more than ancient bones it cracked open our understanding of when and how humans first ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

Based on the site’s age and location, the team suspects it was once inhabited by a human ancestor called Homo heidelbergensis. But they haven’t found any evidence yet to confirm this hunch.

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

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? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating ...

Boston College will begin recruiting the first class for its highly anticipated Human-Centered Engineering program, a major that will integrate BC’s core liberal arts focus and a rigorous engineering ...

The discovery of the most famous of missing links was announced to the world by a monograph published in Batavia in 1894 and entitled “Pithecanthropus erectus, eine Ubergangsform”. No single ...

Recent research has revealed a surprising diversity of archaic human relatives living in eastern Asia during the Pleistocene, prior to the arrival of modern humans. Among the most significant are the ...