Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

Environmental Variability Promotes the Evolution of Cooperation Among Humans ... Wealth Inequality's Deep Roots in Human Prehistory Apr. 14, 2025 — Wealth inequality began shaping human ...

The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 14, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the century ... several more Australopithecus fossils in 1936 and 1947, this time of adult specimens, Dart's view began to see acceptance.

The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA ... We begin this discussion of our species' evolution in Africa, near the end of the geological time period known as the Miocene ...

Pope Pius XII sees way to accept evolution ... science versus old-time religion. Sputnik launches push for science education. The Soviet space capsule Sputnik is the first human-made structure ...

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 ...

This much of your body is made up of human cells ... Feeling sick all the time while you're trying to nurture a growing baby might seem like a terrible mistake on evolution's part, but what ...

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