(CNN) — Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN
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 ...
Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...
Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...
New Scientist on MSN
Was our earliest ancestor a knuckle-dragger, or did it walk upright?
A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...
A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.
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