Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other primates lack.
A previously unknown species of Australopithecus have been discovered in Ethiopia’s Afar region, coexisting with early Homo over 2.6 million years ago—overturning long-standing assumptions about the ...
More than two decades after scientists first sequenced the entire human genome — all 3 billion “letters,” or base pairs, of DNA code — the meaning of much of this code remains a mystery. While an ...
Digging in the dirt of East Africa for ancient monkey remains, University assistant professor Stephen R. Frost discovered that famed South African paleontologist Elisabeth Vrba’s controversial ...
An age-old debate about human nature is being energised with new findings on the tightrope of cooperation and competition For ...
Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...
A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...
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