More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...
From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...
In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...
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National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...
As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human biology is struggling to keep pace. Many of the chronic stress-related health ...
A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...
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One of the most complete hominin fossils ever discovered could completely change our understanding of human evolution, new ...
As we age, the human brain rewires itself. The process happens in distinct phases, or “epochs,” according to new research, as the structure of our neural networks changes and our brains reconfigure ...
The act of kissing may have started long before modern humans existed, a new modeling study suggests. Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large ...
Early humans like Neanderthals probably kissed, and our ape ancestors could have done so as far back as 21 million years ago. There is wide debate over when humans began kissing romantically. Ancient ...