Recent discoveries about these ancestors raise questions about our evolution. At the heart of human history, the Australopithecines, who lived between four million and one million years before our era ...

The fossil remains of the unique hominid were found in Ethiopia in 1974, traveled around the world, were the subject of ...

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The pungent odor and flavor that I love in sauces evolved as a means of defense against creatures who would otherwise eat the plants, and it remains very effective against non-hominids ... eventually ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

New research is shaking up how we think about evolution, suggesting there's a level of predictability influenced by genes and ...

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers ...

The development of primate brains is shaped by various inputs. However, these inputs differ between independent breeders, ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 150,000-year-old shelter in Tajikistan, offering new insights into human evolution.