In recent years, there have been numerous studies that compare anatomically modern humans – our direct ancestors – to other ...
A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins ...
A new study suggests human ancestors nearly went extinct some 930,000 years ago. Scientists in China used modern human genomes to estimate what past populations may have looked like. The study ...
Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...
Our limited understanding of the metabolism of our microbial ancestor is a sizeable gap in our knowledge of how complex life ...
Exploring genetic inheritance often leads to a startling realization at the mirror. Many individuals discover the biological ...
Since January, the genealogical nonprofit American Ancestors has led the effort to identify the descendants of people enslaved by Harvard faculty, staff, and leadership — taking over the project ...