A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

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

“Expression tells us what cells do, but regulatory DNA tells us where they come from, how they develop, and which germ layer ...

Scientists trace an ancient microbe, Asgard archaea, that gave rise to humans, animals, and plants more than 2 billion years ...

David Toews works for Pennsylvania State University. He receives funding from The National Science Foundation. People typically think about evolution as a linear process where, within a species, the ...

Last month, the Bean Life Science Museum opened its new exhibit, the Evolutionary Tree of Life, to the public. “It was a fabulous feeling,” said museum director Michael Whiting. Whiting said the ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

For the next few weeks, this column will focus on “Christmas in the Past,” a series of columns that will feature ways Americans celebrated Christmas in the past and how the way we currently celebrate ...

From ancient apes to modern humans, this video breaks down the entire evolutionary timeline. Learn how hominids split from other great apes, when bipedalism began, and how species like Homo habilis, ...

Human evolution may no longer be driven primarily by genetics, according to a new theory by researchers at the University of Maine which claims that cultural systems are now shaping the way humans ...

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