Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...

In 1878, Bergson left the Lycée Condorcet and won entry to the École Normale Supérieure, the most exclusive university in ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

For decades, the story of human origins has been pieced together from fossil evidence scattered across Africa, Europe, and Asia. But recent fossil discoveries in China are raising questions that could ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species such as the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis and the powerfully built Homo naledi. A pinkie ...

In our modern world, accessing food and avoiding disease is a lot easier than it was throughout much of human history. The researchers describe in the paper how they analyzed World Health ...

Evolution is a master recycler. It often uses old structures (or ancient genes) for new jobs. The mammalian ear is a perfect example. Over the eons, the jawbones of our fish ancestors became three ...

“This method opens up exciting possibilities for understanding human evolution, and it has the ... a sense of what they were consuming during life,” Bernard Wood, a paleoanthropologist at ...

Human genetic diversity and evolution rely on new mutations and exchange of DNA between chromosomes during the generation of sex cells, in a process called recombination. Recombination manifests ...

But Israelis are driven by something far deeper than the superficially practical: a fundamental and abiding conviction that human life is precious. The contrast with their adversaries could not be ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics have unveiled a groundbreaking map of human DNA mixing during reproduction, offering insights into genetic diversity, health, and fertility. Credit: SciTechDaily.com ...