Human evolution: Facts, news, features and articles about the past 300,000 years of Homo sapiens

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...
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20% of Modern Human Genetic Heritage Is Thought to Have Been Inherited From a Mysterious Ancestral Population

New research has revealed an incredible discovery: modern humans carry 20% of their genetic material from a mysterious population that split from our ancestors 1.5 million years ago. This study ...
Science Daily

This gene variant contributed to the dietary and physiological evolution of modern humans

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...
Nature

Human Evolution and Comparative Anatomy

The study of human evolution and comparative anatomy bridges palaeontology, biomechanics and evolutionary biology to elucidate the origins of our unique anatomy. Recent analyses have shed new ...
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Human Evolution's Lost Chapter Revealed

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...
Earth.com

Only humans have true chins, and that may be an evolutionary accident

A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...