Population bottlenecks caused by stark population loss due to illness or habitat destruction caused mammals' disease immunity ...

North American mammoths interbred more often than previously believed, suggesting hybrids were surprisingly common in the ...

Walmart EVP of Global Tech platforms Sravana Karnati has over 25 years of leadership experience, and he looks for two things ...

A human skull believed to be older than a million years could alter our understanding of human evolution. Leading scientists have made a eureka breakthrough after analysing an ancient skull, known as ...

Until now, the earliest known evidence of Homo sapiens dates back 300,000 years in Africa. But the reclassification of Yunxian 2 suggests that three major human lineages – Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, ...

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years ...

A new analysis of a million-year-old skull from China challenges the long-held assumption that Homo erectus was our ancestor.

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years, most large-brained humans can be traced to just five major branches: ...

A reconstruction of a one-million-year-old skull suggested that our species started to emerge hundreds of thousands of years ...

New research on the size relationship between brains and wisdom teeth suggests that bigger brains aren’t necessarily the ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology discusses the significance of paleontology, Earth history and science in this ...