“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ancestral lineages.

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Later, when we realised it was a face, and during the paleoanthropological study, we saw that the discovery was not only ...

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How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

The story of human evolution just took a dramatic turn. According to a groundbreaking study published in Nature, modern humans may have inherited 20% of their DNA—and a boost in brainpower ...