These findings, published in the journal iScience, have important implications for understanding the technical abilities associated with the making of perishable tools—a topic which remains a ...

Segmental duplications are important because they underlie several human diseases and have been key to shaping the evolution of great apes. For example, human-specific copy-number increases of ...

The study is published in the Journal of Human Evolution. Tracking changes in facial size in different species To reach this conclusion, the researchers tracked changes in facial size across ...

The enlightened truth of the role of fire in human evolution. Illustration by Paul Garland The next time you find yourself lost in thought while gazing at a fireplace ablaze or even a solitary ...

The results, published this week in Nature magazine by an international team of 123 researchers, help deepen people's understanding of human evolution and protect endangered ape populations.

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Chang said he was allowed to leave only after sharing his credentials and giving the security personnel “a very short human evolution lesson.” Before testing the jawbone, Welker and his ...

A genetic analysis suggests it probably began as an opening used to release sperm that later fused with the gut – an example of evolution repurposing structures. “Once a hole is there ...