Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ancestral lineages.

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

Languages: English. A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and ...

Using advanced analysis based on full genome sequences ... For the last two decades, the prevailing view in human evolutionary genetics has been that Homo sapiens first appeared in Africa around ...

This particular Mixodectes pungens specimen represents a mature adult that weighed about three pounds, lived in trees, feasted on leaves, and may be among our closer evolutionary relatives.

Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a ... applications is to give a more complete sense of human ancestry, says Gideon Bradburd, U-M professor of ecology and ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life ... abilities underlying human language and ...

We’ve all seen this poster in our middle school biology classrooms: an ape-like figure on all fours, then the Neanderthal on two, slowly morph into a fully upright human ... read phylogenies ...