This new potential species—described in a study published recently in the journal PLOS One and given the name Buronius manfredschmidi—wouldn’t have been a competitor. Rather, it displayed a different ...

Foreword / J. Francis Thackeray -- 1. African genesis : an evolving paradigm / Sally C. Reynolds ; 2. Academic genealogy / Peter S. Ungar and Phillip V. Tobias -- pt. 1. In search of origins : ...

The announcement in November of the discovery of what appears to be a near-intact hominid skull in China is a stunning discovery. It has the potential of further revealing the complex intricacies of ...

A core oral microbiome has been maintained throughout African hominid evolution, but oral biofilms in Homo have undergone unique changes related to starch digestion, according to a study. Bacteria ...

A new research conducted by two paleontologists at the University of Malaga has just revealed that human evolution uniquely combines an increase in brain size with the acquisition of an increasingly ...