(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...
One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...
The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by researchers from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge ...
The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old remains from ...
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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 ...
Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...
Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...
Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...
Humans are fundamentally technological creatures. We depend on the manufacture and use of tools for our survival to a degree qualitatively greater than any other species. Therefore, an understanding ...
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