Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big mystery of human evolution. Their proposal is sparking debate in the scientific ...

Today — a century on — the fossil is still prompting questions about human evolution. In his Nature paper, Dart argued that the Taung Child belonged to a previously unknown group of bipedal ...

But if Bae and Wu’s analysis is correct, these fossils could hold the key to solving one of human evolution’s biggest mysteries: a puzzle that started with the discovery of a pinkie bone in ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

They used the Harbin skull, also known as 'Dragon Man,' which is a 150,000-year-old nearly complete human skull discovered in China in 1933. Paleoartist John Gurche utilized fossils and genetic ...

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