FRIEDRICH ENGELS’S essay on the origins of our species is today recognised as a foundational text, not just of Marxism, but of today’s physical and social anthropology.Like most of Engels’s ...

Whoever’s filming can barely hold the camera steady because it’s just too dang cute. Whether it’s online or in person, we’ve ...

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has selected for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV in humans, ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

Five major discoveries from 2021 are presented as milestones in human evolution research: the oldest figurative cave art in Indonesia, the earliest known Aboriginal figurative art and an Ice Age shell ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

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The next surprise was that human organoids just kept growing. Mouse organoids were done with making neurons within nine days.