A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago ... began instantaneously. Debates over human evolution weren’t confined to the pages of esoteric scientific journals at the ...

The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, continues to capture human imagination.

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift Valley of Ethiopia, forever transforming our understanding of human evolution. Uncovered by a young paleoanthropologist ...

One of the more enduring mysteries about Neanderthals is whether they had a spoken language, a trait that’s impossible to ...

One of the paper’s most fascinating discussions concerns human brain evolution. Our species experienced a dramatic increase in brain size until relatively recently – somewhere between 35,000 and 3,000 ...

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A recent paper in The Quarterly Review of Biology explores how these technologies might influence human evolution. In “How Might Artificial Intelligence Influence Human Evolution?” author Rob Brooks ...

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