South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...

But what might humans look like in 50,000 years' time? Such a question is clearly speculative in nature. Nevertheless, experts gave Newsweek their predictions for how evolution might affect the ...

Human Evolution Recapped in Kids' Brain Growth. For a quick summary of the last 25 million years in human brain evolution, just watch how our brains change between infancy and adulthood.

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Human Evolution 'Huge surprise' reveals how some humans left Africa 50,000 years ago. Human Evolution Stunning facial reconstructions of 'hobbit,' Neanderthal and Homo erectus bring human ...

That humans originated in Africa is widely accepted. But it’s not generally recognised how unique features of Africa’s ecology were responsible for the crucial evolutionary transitions from ...

This year—2021—has been a year of progress in overcoming the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on human evolution research. With some research projects around the world back up and running, we ...

Herschel Walker, the former Georgia football star vying to join the U.S. Senate, questioned evolution during a recent church appearance. "At one time science said, man came from apes.

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Evolution of mammals reveals 2,000 new genes key to longevity in humans. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 09 / 210908180724.htm ...

As time passes and technology evolves, it is also possible that humans will begin to direct our own evolution in a targeted fashion through gene-editing tools such as CRISPR—potentially aided by ...