This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

It's considered one of the most decisive steps in human evolution. Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed when our ...

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical traces in fossil teeth. Experiments suggest this exposure may have driven ...

The findings are based on a reconstruction of a crushed skull discovered in China in 1990, and have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers ...

Analysis of ancient proteins may fill in the gaps of human evolution left by the decomposition of DNA. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

【3月15日 AFP】南アフリカの洞窟で見つかった背が低い猿人の化石は300万年前のもので、人間の祖先である可能性もあるという研究論文が14日、専門誌ジャーナル・オブ・ヒューマン・エボリューション（Journal of Human Evolution）のオンライン版に発表された。

One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010, a groundbreaking genetic analysis revealed that east Asia was once home to a previously unknown group of enigmatic ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

論文が掲載された学術誌の名前を当初、「ジャーナル・オブ・ヒューマン・エボリューション（Journal of Human Evolution）」としていましたが、正しくは「ヒューマン・エボリューション（Human Evolution）」でした。 「時事トレンド」に注目！グローバルな視点で ...