An international team of scientists has found out that two types of ancient people originated in Africa, and not one, as previously thought. To clarify this issue, they analyzed the area of dental ...

This article is a summary of Roy Ratcliffe’s recently released book ‘Life on Earth’ (Past, Present and Future)’. Of all the millions of species of life that have existed on earth over billions of ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for ...