A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

Nonetheless, there is enough consensus to thread the story of human evolution ... While the name means "southern ape," the australopithecines were certainly hominins. Fully bipedal, their teeth ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a unique group of ancient humans, the Juluren or “large head people,” roamed eastern Asia. Recently ...

Smithsonian 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 ...

But what might humans look like in 50,000 years time? Such a question is clearly speculative in nature. Nevertheless, experts that Newsweek spoke to gave their predictions for how evolution might ...

While humans share over 95% of their genome with chimpanzees, our brains are far more complex due to differences in gene expression.

This characteristic, along with their diverse physical traits, underscores the complexity of human evolution ... He agrees that the name Juluren may help researchers better contextualize the ...

Most non-African people can attribute around 1% to 2% of their DNA to Neanderthal ancestors ... Chris Stringer, a professor and research leader on human evolution at the Natural History Museum ...

This characteristic, along with their diverse physical traits, underscores the complexity of human evolution ... He agreed that the name Juluren may help researchers better contextualize the ...