The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 14, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

Related Stories ・8.7 million year-old fossil rewrites the story of human evolution Chinese scientists, including Xinzhi Wu and Lanpo Jia, challenged these outdated views. They proposed a ...

Now, the caves deemed by scientists to hold the key to understanding where humans came from, are open again to anyone visiting South Africa.The Sterkfontein Caves yielded numerous fossil discoveries ...

The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 14, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

Professor Chris Stringer, a human evolution expert who was not involved in the research, has called the discovery “an important result”. “This fossil supports the idea that the morphologically similar ...

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

Now that Wits University has taken over management of the Wits Sterkfontein Caves, they have been reopened to the public.

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery pushes back the date hominins started living in Europe by 200,000 years.

The fossils, which date back more than 7 million ... Mashable The teams were led by Madelaine Böhme from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment in Germany and Nikolai ...

The diversity within these fossils reflects the complexity of human evolution in eastern Asia, where interbreeding and migration likely played significant roles. The Juluren’s distinct features ...