Tag: human evolution

A new study dating the Taung Child fossil to roughly three million years ago indicates that early hominin evolution in ...

A new perspective in Frontiers in Education argues that cumulative culture evolved through specialized interpersonal coordination and teaching, rather than ...

An international drilling project plans to extract a continuous sediment core from beneath Lake Kinneret spanning the Pliocene–Quaternary to reconstruct ...

A 10-year study of wild bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo found that females initiated 60% of recorded ...

Fossil limb-bone comparisons indicate that Australopithecus combined climbing with upright walking, whereas early Homo was more committed to terrestrial life ...

The roadDB R package provides streamlined access to archaeological, environmental, geographic and chronological data spanning most of the last three ...

Humans walk upright, carry brains three times larger than those of our closest relatives, and possess slender, distinctly shaped skeletons. ...

A new Frontiers review argues that no human has ever conceived in space and that making babies beyond Earth may ...

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have built a cross-species atlas of gene regulatory networks governing early mammalian neurogenesis, revealing ...

Israeli and Japanese researchers report in Nature that reduced cartilage cushioning molecules, an evolutionary trade-off tied to human traits, explain ...