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Gut microbes are reshaping how scientists view brain evolution
For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...
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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 ...
Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...
In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...
Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on record? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
Shaw Badenhorst works for the University of the Witwatersrand. He receives funding from GENUS, the National Research Foundation and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust. South Africa has one of the ...
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