Fossils unearthed in Morocco are first from little-understood period of human evolution

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...
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Ancient Hobbits slowed down growth during childhood, showing that humans didn't always grow 'bigger and bigger brains'

Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on teeth and brain size suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
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Human evolution: Facts about the past 300,000 years of Homo sapiens

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...
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Hominin fossils from Morocco may be close ancestors of modern humans

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...
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Mapping two millennia of betaherpesvirus evolution via ancient human genomes

Researchers have successfully reconstructed the ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from human ...
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Study sheds light on the genetic changes that shaped human brain evolution

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...