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Mysterious skull points to a possible new branch on human family tree
Popular Science· 10 months agoSome newly discovered specimens could shake up the timeline of hominid evolution. A 300,000 year-old...
A new model for human origins in Africa upends commonly held beliefs about our evolution
Salon via Yahoo News· 11 months agoCabinet of replica human fosil skulls. From a college dept of Anthropology.kickstand via Getty...
Ancient skull found in China is from 'third kind of human'
Yahoo News UK· 10 months agoThe skull has unusual features. (Journal of Human Evolution) Journal of Human Evolution A skull...
300,000-year-old skull found in China unlike any early human seen before
CNN via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAn ancient skull dating back 300,000 years is unlike any other premodern human fossil ever found,...
Tracing the crocodiles' curious evolutionary family tree
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 6 months agoPoposaurus comes from a group of extinct relatives of the crocodile known as Poposauroidea....
North America was once home to some unusual wild monkeys
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAn illustration of Ekgmowechashala, the last primate to inhabit North America before humans. Humans...
This Tacoma professor spent years in Africa rewriting what we know about evolution
Tacoma News Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen did our ancestors go from walking on all fours to just two? It’s a question that researchers...
Computer modeling is tracing the hidden evolution of sign languages
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIn tracing signed vocabularies’ evolutions, researchers applied phylogenetic analysis typically...
What a gorilla named Lia taught scientists about human facial expressions
Salon via Yahoo News· 5 months agoSilverback Gorilla Getty Images/Edwin_Butter There’s a lot we don’t know about gorillas. This is due...
The remarkable fossil that radically changed our understanding of the human story
CNN via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe explosive discovery of a tiny, enigmatic hominin in an Indonesian cave in 2003 captivated the...