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Yet they also showed more advanced features similar to those found in Neanderthals and modern humans. It’s as if nature decided to experiment with different human traits, creating a unique cocktail of ...

(Bae & Wu, Nature Communications, 2024) In the last two decades alone, the human family tree has gone from a carefully pruned bonsai to a bushy tangled mess, and trying to tease apart and name all the ...

(Bae & Wu, Nature Communications, 2024) In the last two decades alone, the human family tree has gone from a carefully pruned bonsai to a bushy tangled mess, and trying to tease apart and name all ...

An excavation team uncovered four sets of footprints preserved in the mud at the Turkana Basin, a site that has led to important breakthroughs in understanding human evolution. The discovery ...

Scientists have discovered a new human species that went extinct 200,000 ... The study, published in the journal Nature, said the new species likely formed due to a combination of crossing their ...