From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

"Consciousness," although challenging to define, can be thought of as a first-person awareness of one's surroundings and oneself. You sense the world through your eyes, nose, ears and hands, and track ...

Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information has been uncovered via archaeology.

Archaeologist Paula García Medrano, researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

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Humans, who are classified among the five great apes, are closest genetically, i.e., DNA similarity, to chimpanzees (98.8%-99%) and bonobos (98.8%). [Blueringmedia ...

Modern humans did not evolve from monkeys or any other animal that lives today. Humans continue to evolve but the traits we pass down aren't always for the species' betterment. "Survival of the ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and ...