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The Top Human Evolution Discoveries of 2025, From the Intriguing Neanderthal Diet to the Oldest Western European Face Fossil

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
New Scientist

Hominin fossils from Morocco may be close ancestors of modern humans

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

New evidence of the possible coexistence of two separate early human species

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...
Discover Magazine

773,000-Year-Old Fossils Capture a Moment Before Human Lineages Split

Learn how precisely dated fossils from Morocco reveal a population with a mix of archaic and emerging traits, helping clarify ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

The Earth System Context for Hominin Evolution

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...
Earth.com

'Little Foot' fossil study suggests it comes from a completely new human species unknown to science

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...
insider.si.edu

Understanding climate's influence on human evolution / Committee on the Earth System Context for Hominin Evolution, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Division on Earth and ...

National Research Council (U.S.) Board on Earth Sciences and Resources "The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it ...