18, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution ... of early human ... Smallest Arm Bone in Human Fossil Record Sheds Light ...

Debates over human evolution weren’t confined to the pages ... Lucy quickly became a celebrity of the fossil record. As a kid growing up in Connecticut, Johanson got a book from a neighbor ...

They proposed a “river network” model of human evolution, where populations ... but their fragmented fossil record limits definitive conclusions. As Wu and Bae emphasize, these groups likely ...

breaking its own record. The first time this happened was in 1994, when the remains of a new human species were unearthed at ...

An analysis of a jawbone found off the Taiwanese coast reveals it belonged to a Denisovan, a mysterious human species that contributed some genetic material to Indigenous Australians and people living ...

Professor Chris Stringer, a human evolution expert who was not involved in the research, has called the discovery “an important result”. “This fossil supports the idea that the morphologically similar ...

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...