The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...
Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...
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'Biological time capsules': How DNA from cave dirt is revealing clues about early humans and Neanderthals
Today, sequencing machines can decode up to a hundred million times more DNA than their early predecessors. Where the first ...
In ancient Judaism and early Christianity, angels were portrayed as powerful beings who guarded the Garden of Eden, ...
And then, of course, there’s the sheer fear of birth. So much blood to bring love into the world! The real Nativity—for Mary, ...
A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...
“Early humans comprised a subdivided, shifting, pan-African meta-population with physical and cultural diversity,” read a ...
New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...
It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...
The 'Grey's Anatomy' creator said she had a fear of being famous in the early days of her TV career Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024 ...
In the latest twist in human evolution, scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative. Dated to around 3.4 million years ago, ...
In 2009, Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team were combing the desert landscape of Burtele, a paleontological site in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, when Stephanie Melillo found something remarkable: an ...
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