Maba 1 was considered a ‘Chinese Neanderthal’ for their resemblance manifested in the facial area. However, this study did ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered ... new method called FitCoal (fast infinitesimal time coalescent process), which cleverly sidesteps many of the problems faced by ...

But with selection weakened, this process could largely go unchecked and could even help speed up our DNA’s evolution. The human mutation rate itself may also be changing. The main source of ...

Human evolution is complex ... like a traffic jam, slow down the process. With fewer red blood cells, that highway opens up and can quickly carry oxygen throughout the body with ease.

Evolution is a process, not an outcome ... However, biologists can still observe human evolution in action and identify recent examples of it. Before we get into the research, it’s important ...

And there are thousands of fossils documenting progressively more human-like species in the evolution of our lineage ... Over enough time, the process can even produce new species.

These findings challenge the traditional view that human evolution was a clean, linear process, instead painting a picture of populations drifting apart, evolving separately, and then coming back ...

The Julurens — or “big head” people — are twisting scientists’ long-accepted understanding of human evolution. How humans came to be is largely understood to have been a linear process ...

Modern humans (from around 300,000 years ago) Many people look at human evolution chiefly to explain us, Homo sapiens. But we are the culmination of a long process of evolution—no more than 5% ...

This whittled away genes for skittishness and aggression, beginning the process of dog domestication. The inadvertent selection that turned wolves into dogs turns out to be instructive in how AI might ...

The study, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, demonstrates that the process used by a group of chimps to select stones for use as tools appear to resemble what is documented for Oldowan ...

Spending less time on mastication may go hand in hand with human evolution ... have played an important role in our evolution. Making food easier to process through cooking, mashing food with ...