A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.
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From Chimps Eating Medicinal Plants to Footprints Tracking Our Early Relatives, Here Are the Most Significant Human Evolution Discoveries of 2024Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...
Research uncovers early humans' reliance on plant-based foods, revealing ancient tools and 780,000-year-old starch grains.
A study published in the Journal of Human Evolution found that chimpanzees select harder stones for nut-cracking tasks, ...
"Within the past 50,000 years most of the variation that is seen among human populations evolved," said researcher Jason ...
The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of Australopithecus afarensis, the early human ancestor famously represented by ...
A new archaeological study, conducted along the Jordan River banks south of northern Israel’s Hula Valley, offers a fresh ...
We now understand that early hominids gathered a wide variety ... the researchers suggest that it may be linked to the evolution of the human brain. 'Starchy tubers, nuts, and roots, are rich ...
Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...
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