27, 2024 — Brain size increased gradually within each ancient human species ... illuminates the cultural evolution that took place approximately 50,000 to 40,000 years ago, coinciding with ...

The study found that unlike other vertebrates where competition generally suppresses speciation after ecological niches are ...

The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is ...

Virginia Tech’s study traces early eukaryotic evolution, highlighting life’s diversification since 2 billion years ago.

Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 billion years ago. The ...

If all the world's a stage and all the species merely players, then their exits and entrances can be found in the rock record ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago. Here is the history of humanity as we know it today.

Footprints from Kenya's Turkana Basin show that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei lived simultaneously 1.5 million years ...

If all the world's a stage and all the species merely players, then their exits and entrances can be found in the rock record ...

Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but ...

The discovery of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton, changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, and continues to capture human imagination.