The Ducks (13-1, 9-1 Big Ten) and Hoosiers (14-0, 9-0 Big Ten) meet in Atlanta, with kickoff set for 4:30 PM Pacific Time on ESPN. The Daily... Digging in the dirt of East Africa for ancient monkey ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy straightforward explanation. From the jut of the human chin to the curve of the outer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Genetic information from the "Dragon Man" skull has linked the fossil, found in China, to the Denisovans. - Hebei GEO University ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

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Once upon a time, human evolution was almost exclusively concerned with fossils, prehistoric artifacts, and comparative anatomy. In other words, you had to rely on fossilized remains of pre-humans, ...