said pinpointing the interbreeding event helps line up other key parts of the human evolution timeline. The findings constrain “the timing of the arrival of populations in regions like China and ...

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The new studies say those populations died off and became evolutionary dead ends. “Human history is not just a story of success. We actually went extinct several times,” said an author of the Nature ...

The recent discovery of a 2.8 million year-old fossilized jawbone in Ethiopia is helping scientists clear up a clouded period in the evolution of modern humans. The African continent is rich with ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner Two studies came to a similar conclusion ...

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That an early mammalian relative had it, too, is thus providing scientists with more contextual clues about how mammals began to evolve along their evolutionary timeline, since no fossils this old ...

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Chinese scientists have discovered dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, which are the earliest ones found in East Asia in terms of the evolution process towards Homo sapiens, the species ...

This poetic perspective highlights the continuous evolution and unfolding of life’s history ... Fossil evidence has charted evolutionary milestones over the past half-billion years, but researchers ...