Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” ...

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A team of researchers has used advanced DNA sequencing to develop the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic change through ...

18, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of ... may influence our understanding of early human ...

New research challenges the view that proteins are the only key to evolution, highlighting the importance of lipids.

Houzel's groundbreaking research on neuron counting has revolutionised our understanding of intelligence, cognition and what ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.

Scientists uncovered how whole-genome duplication emerges and remains stable over thousands of generations of evolution in the lab. Sometimes, the most significant scientific discoveries happen by ...