It's tempting to think that we've reached the pinnacle of our evolution, but modern life continues to shape us just as much ...
Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...
Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.
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This Is Why Modern Human Faces Look So Different From Neanderthals
Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...
Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long ...
In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...
Our species is defined by a long list of cultural and genetic traits that set us apart from our ancient counterparts. New research suggests at least some key distinctions date back earlier than ...
New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...
John Gowlett receives funding from PAST Africa and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and his work has previously been supported by The Leverhulme Trust. He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human ...
When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there's remarkably little agreement on this question. Fossils and DNA suggest people looking like us, anatomically modern Homo ...
An experimental study of modern chimpanzees has documented patterns of behavior that seemingly mirror those of our prehistoric human ancestors, casting light on how our predecessors may have utilized ...
A large ancient DNA study reveals that early humans in southern Africa lived in long-term isolation for at least 200,000 ...
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