A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.
"Within the past 50,000 years most of the variation that is seen among human populations evolved," said researcher Jason ...
What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have ...
Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...
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From Chimps Eating Medicinal Plants to Footprints Tracking Our Early Relatives, Here Are the Most Significant Human Evolution Discoveries of 2024Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...
Researcher Christopher J. Bae identified Homo juluensis, a new human species that coexisted with Denisovans in Asia. A University of Hawaiʻi researcher may have identified a new human species, Homo ...
While humans share over 95% of their genome with chimpanzees, our brains are far more complex due to differences in gene expression.
Many people hold the view that evolution in modern humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists ...
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