Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species ...

Through a collaboration between U.S. and Kenyan researchers and Turkana communities of northern Kenya, scientists have ...

Recent groundbreaking research into ape genomes has uncovered mysterious non-human DNA structures that challenge our ...

Humans have long viewed themselves as the pinnacle of evolution, labeling other species as “primitive” or using terms like ...

Genetics may no longer be the driving force of human evolution, a study by researchers from the University of Maine suggests.

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the ...

Researchers have found a link between long thumbs and big brains, suggesting the two features evolved together ...

An updated evolutionary model shows that living systems evolve in a split-and-hit-the-gas dynamic, where new lineages appear in sudden bursts rather than during a long marathon of gradual changes.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bipedal locomotion - walking upright on two legs - is a fundamental trait underpinning humankind's success. Scientists now have identified two innovations that occurred long ago ...

(Reuters) -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 ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

In the study, the researchers examined the activity of ADSL by measuring the concentration of protein substrates SAICAr and S-Ado (in red), which increase when ADSL activity decreases. Below, the ...