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Far from “a nice clean example” of “gradualistic evolutionary change” that has “no gaps,” the fossil record shows a dramatic discontinuity.

Findings indicate the desert zones of Central Asia may have served as key areas for early hominin dispersals into Eurasia. 

Neanderthals are our ancestors, from whom modern humans evolved. They lived about 4,00,000 to 40,000 years ago across Europe and southwest and central Asia.

The video shows how technology is taking over, and turns humans first into cyborgs and later into robots.

So monumental had an impact on human evolution. what research did as they took the dna from around 200 ancient skeletons and they were able to precisely work out whether they died before, during or after the black death. and what they found which was really interesting is in relation to a very specific gene known as the earp2 gene and if you have the right mutations then you are 40% more likely to survive the black death and there are lots of people walking around today with that specific gene m...

Scientists have found evidence for genetic adaptation to bubonic plague. But this rapid evolution may have come at a great cost.

Why do we get old? This question has been troubling humans for thousands of years. Sadly, there is no definite answer yet — but here's what we know so far.

For more than 44 years, ASU anthropologist Polly Wiessner tracked how the introduction of money changed the historically hunter-gatherer society of the Ju/ꞌhoansi Bushmen of northeast Namibia and northwest Botswana. Her findings were recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Neanderthals co-existed with modern humans in several places in present-day France and northern Spain for more than 2,000 years, during which time these two human branches had time to…

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