A new species of ancient primate challenges what we think we know about where human ancestors diverged from monkeys.

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We are still using much of the same genetic code that was present in life hundreds of millions of years ago.

One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010, a groundbreaking genetic analysis revealed that east Asia was once home to a previously unknown group of enigmatic ...

Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin and shows foot features that are transitioning from vertical climbing to bipedal walking. While Ardi has the primitive grasping big toe of the ...

The discovery of a never-before-seen bump on the leg bone of a 7 million-year-old fossil ape shows it walked upright on two legs while it was on the ground, a new study finds. Only members of the ...

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

Yunxian 1 (left) and Yunxian 2 (right) are skulls unearthed in China that had been badly crushed. Scientists digitally reconstructed Yunxian 2 (center) and analyzed its relationship to other early ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...