A braided stream, not a family tree: How new evidence upends our understanding of how humans evolved
Evidence is mounting that the evolution of our species is more convoluted than we imagined — more like a braided stream than a branching tree. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...
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Can human evolution really be explained step by step?
Human evolution is explained through branching lineages rather than a simple linear progression. Fossils, genetics, and ...
Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift Valley of Ethiopia, forever transforming our understanding of human evolution. Uncovered by a young paleoanthropologist, Donald ...
John Gowlett receives funding from PAST Africa and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and his work has previously been supported by The Leverhulme Trust. He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human ...
In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...
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There’s a mysterious nerve in the human body that takes the most inefficient route imaginable—and scientists can’t explain why
The human body is full of elegant designs that seem almost too perfect to be real. But once in a while, nature throws in a ...
Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...
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