Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...
New research suggests fire was key to making our bodies successful in evolution – but not in the ways we previously thought.
For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...
If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...
The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...
A self-proclaimed healthcare futurist, Jeffrey Charles Hardy, says that after millions of years, human evolution has stalled out. He believes we are in a state of suspended evolution before the second ...
Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...
A discovery that contradicts long-held assumptions about how tools were made at the time.
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