(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...
The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old remains from ...
The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...
Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...
One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...
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The top human evolution discoveries of 2025, from the intriguing Neanderthal diet to the oldest Western European face fossil
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...
A new fossil analysis supports the idea a human ancestor was walking upright far earlier than previously thought.
Tom O'Mahoney does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
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