Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

Download our poster of the biggest milestones, from the discovery of the viral family in humans in the 1960s to the identification of SARS-CoV-2. Shawna was an editor at The Scientist from 2017 ...

Now, a new discovery in northern Israel shifts the timeline of human history even further, suggesting Homo sapiens first left Africa at least 180,000 years ago. In 2002, a team of archaeologists ...

In the years since, scientists have carefully mapped the viscera, bones, muscles, nerves, and many other components of our bodies, such that a human corpse no longer holds that same sense of mystery ...

we would recognize her as upright walking and some kind of human," Johanson said. Lucy's discovery compelled scientists to rewrite their evolutionary timeline, HISTORY reported. They now had to ...

New fossil evidence from Romania suggests hominins reached Eurasia 200,000 years earlier than thought, reshaping human ...

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