evolutionary process leading up to the appearance of anatomically modern humans
Den of Geek Oct 12
Could animal adaptations teach us what real-life superhumans might actually look like? 🧬🦸
From extreme strength and speed to surviving harsh environments ... Show more
Den of Geek Oct 09
What can crooked teeth tell us about human evolution? 🦷🧬
Turns out, quite a lot. Changes in our jaws, diets, and lifestyles over thousands of years may help ... Show more
Inside the caves where rocks reveal mysteries of Homo naledi: Dr Tebogo Makhubela’s ongoing research into hominid fossil-bearing deposits from the Cradle of ...
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'In over 30 years, I've never seen something this powerful': Experts have finally learned how the right human touch can transform your health
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Inside the caves where rocks reveal mysteries of Homo naledi: Dr Tebogo Makhubela’s ongoing research into hominid fossil-bearing deposits from the Cradle of ...
dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-09-30-homo-naledi-fossils-in-the-rising-star-caves/
Walking with Lucy, the fossil, into the future: Ethiopia, a country that wrote the story of human evolution, finds itself in the midst of an urban transformation
indianexpress.com/article/express-sunday-eye/walking-with-lucy-the-fossil-into-the-future-10886962/
'In over 30 years, I've never seen something this powerful': Experts have finally learned how the right human touch can transform your health
sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/touch-deprivation-health-wellbeing
sciencealert.com Sep 19
Human Evolution May Be Slowly Selecting Against One Alzheimer's Gene: Imagine thousands of people gathered for an enormous birthday party.
sciencealert.com/human-evolution-may-be-slowly-selecting-against-one-alzheimers-gene
Patrice Désilets vows to make a sequel to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey: 1666: Amsterdam director Patrice Désilets has pledged to make a sequel to human ...
eurogamer.net/ancestors-humankind-odyssey-sequel-patrice-desilets
psypost.org Aug 23
Survival of the wittiest: How humor and cleverness shaped human evolution: A new theoretical framework proposes that "survival of the wittiest" drove ...
psypost.org/survival-of-the-wittiest-how-humor-and-cleverness-shaped-human-evolution/
12 Years Later, One Matthew McConaughey Line In True Detective Is The Bleakest Quote In Crime Thriller History
screenrant.com/matthew-mcconaughey-rust-cohle-true-detective-line-bleak/
A new computational approach that can detect ancient hominin ancestry in modern humans without requiring archaic reference genomes reveals a more complex ... Show more
Rethinking how we name and classify our human ancestors following recent evolutionary discoveries
phys.org/news/2026-08-rethinking-human-ancestors-evolutionary-discoveries.html
A new computational approach that can detect ancient hominin ancestry in modern humans without requiring archaic reference genomes reveals a more complex ... Show more
How much of our existence do we owe to sugar?: It may be time to rethink our relationship with the sweet stuff
scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-of-our-existence-do-we-owe-to-sugar/
New Scientist Aug 10
What primates tell us about the evolutionary origins of keeping pets: Keeping pets seems to be fairly recent behaviour in the timeline of human evolution ...
newscientist.com/article/2583030-what-primates-tell-us-about-the-evolutionary-origins-of-keeping-pets/
A new computational approach that can detect ancient hominin ancestry in modern humans without requiring archaic reference genomes reveals a more complex ... Show more
A hominid skull fossil dating back more than 200,000 years has been discovered in Ciudad Real
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'In over 30 years, I've never seen something this powerful': Experts have finally learned how the right human touch can transform your health
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The Kid Whisperer: How bad child-raising advice has come to dominate our culture: We are living through The Era of Collective Parental Psychosis: a time whereby ...
chicagotribune.com/2026/08/01/the-kid-whisperer-how-bad-child-raising-advice-has-come-to-dominate-our-culture/
Greek Scientist Katerina Harvati Receives Prestigious Albert Einstein Science Award
greekreporter.com/2026/07/29/katerina-harvati-albert-einstein-world-award-science/
Wisdom teeth becoming obsolete? Why millions never grow third molars and what evolution may be doing to our jaws
indiatimes.com/trending/wisdom-teeth-becoming-obsolete-why-millions-never-grow-third-molars-and-what-evolution-may-be-doing-to-our-jaws/articleshow/132626819.html
'In over 30 years, I've never seen something this powerful': Experts have finally learned how the right human touch can transform your health
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Jung’s archetypes are a mirror that shows who and what we are: Psychedelics and neuroscience seem to support his ideas about ancestral dreams and fears – but ...
psyche.co/ideas/jungs-archetypes-are-a-mirror-that-shows-who-and-what-we-are
Scientists turn modern biobanks into a new window on human evolution: For more than a century, scientists have sought to reconstruct human evolution using ...
phys.org/news/2026-07-scientists-modern-biobanks-window-human.html
Why sweating might be humanity's greatest superpower | Starting Point: And ode to one of our human superpowers.
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Den of Geek Jul 23
X-Men ’97 Season 2 Episode 6 Review: The Dangers of Evolution: The X-Men continue to grow, bringing the problems of the past along with them.
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Your smart home breaks every time someone flips a wall switch: You might not even realize you're making this mistake.
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OpinionNavigating fearful times: Fear is one of the most basic of human instincts, hearkening back to our pre-human evolution. It is a means of survival ...
trinidadexpress.com/opinion/letters/navigating-fearful-times/article_829deb5d-5c02-4fab-9d09-19b910088ff8.html
Study by the University of Tübingen: How human skulls really evolved: Larger brain, smaller face: Human evolution took a different course than previously thought ...
swp.de/lokales/tuebingen/studie-der-universitaet-tuebingen-wie-sich-menschliche-schaedel-wirklich-entwickelten-79285984.html
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This Early Human Was Stabbed in the Face—and Recovered: If the researchers' hypothesis is correct, the fossil represents the earliest known instance of an ...
gizmodo.com/this-early-human-was-stabbed-in-the-face-and-recovered-2000784089
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Soft tissue surviving for 450 million years and a century-old insect ancestry puzzle finally ... Show more
Larger brain, smaller face: Human evolution took a different course than previously thought
phys.org/news/2026-07-larger-brain-smaller-human-evolution.html
400,000-year-old intact cave found in Israel sheds light on pre-Neanderthal era: A prehistoric cave found near Foreidis in northern Israel is offering a rare ...
euronews.com/culture/2026/07/04/400000-year-old-intact-cave-found-in-israel-sheds-light-on-pre-neanderthal-era
The most controversial fossil site in human evolution just got even more puzzling
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The most controversial fossil site in human evolution just got even more puzzling
ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/the-most-controversial-fossil-site-in-human-evolution-just-got-even-more-puzzling/
CBR Jun 24
10 Anime Arcs Where the Villain Wins: Not all anime series have a perfect happy ending, and these ten anime arcs show exactly what a villain winning can look ...
cbr.com/anime-arcs-where-the-villain-wins/
New findings challenge idea that human bodies simply got bigger and bigger over time in a steady line
phys.org/news/2026-06-idea-human-bodies-simply-bigger.html
1.8 Million Years Ago - | How Humans Became Masters of Fire: Human ancestors kept fires burning in South Africa as early as 1.8 million years ago ...
stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.vor-1-8-millionen-jahren-wie-der-mensch-zum-beherrscher-des-feuers-wurde.8bc3631d-69f0-49e4-9f9f-c7b3ba3806bb.html
Genomes from Oceania offer new clues to human evolution: A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic ...
phys.org/news/2026-06-genomes-oceania-clues-human-evolution.html
Human evolution was messy and gradual, not an abrupt revolution, argues archaeologist
phys.org/news/2026-06-human-evolution-messy-gradual-abrupt.html
New fossils suggest human evolution was more crowded than scientists thought: New fossil discoveries are reshaping our understanding of human evolution.
baltimoresun.com/2026/06/09/human-evolution-crowded/
Hollywood Should Adapt This Forgotten '50s Sci-Fi Book That Inspired The X-Men: This 1950s science fiction novel has several similarities to Marvel's X-Men ...
slashfilm.com/2188576/hollywood-should-adapt-sci-fi-book-x-men-inspiration-more-than-human/
How early humans influenced the animal world: It wasn't the Ice Age that wiped out large predators like cave lions, saber-toothed tigers, and cave bears ...
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pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov May 27
Burn Selection: How Fire Injury Shaped Human Evolution: The mastery of fire transformed human evolution through advantages spanning diet, behavior, physiology ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12873521/
gulftoday.ae May 21
Faya research grants awarded to 5 international universities: The Government of Sharjah has officially announced five international awardees of the prestigious ...
gulftoday.ae/news/2026/05/21/faya-research-grants-awarded-to-5-international-universities
Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Why Most People Are Right-Handed: The answer comes down to two things: our legs and brains.
gizmodo.com/scientists-may-have-finally-figured-out-why-most-people-are-right-handed-2000760885
Why is almost everyone right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk
phys.org/news/2026-05-why-is-almost-everyone-right.html
Modern experiments suggest rhino teeth may have been part of Neanderthal toolkits
phys.org/news/2026-05-modern-rhino-teeth-neanderthal-toolkits.html
On the trail of primates, past and present, in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park
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SciTechDaily Apr 28
Ancient DNA Study Reveals Human Evolution Is Happening Faster Than We Thought: New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution ...
scitechdaily.com/ancient-dna-study-reveals-human-evolution-is-happening-faster-than-we-thought/
Why ‘Man the Hunter’ continues to die – and return: For a century, this theory of human origins has died and returned. To free it from limbo ...
aeon.co/essays/why-man-the-hunter-continues-to-die-and-return
Why ‘Man the Hunter’ continues to die – and return: For a century, this theory of human origins has died and returned. To free it from limbo ...
aeon.co/essays/why-man-the-hunter-continues-to-die-and-return
In Eastern Africa, the cradle of humankind is tearing apart: Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and ...
phys.org/news/2026-04-eastern-africa-cradle-humankind.html
livescience Apr 15
'Human evolution didn't slow down; we were just missing the signal': Large DNA study reveals natural selection led to more redheads and less ...
livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/human-evolution-didnt-slow-down-we-were-just-missing-the-signal-large-dna-study-reveals-natural-selection-led-to-more-redheads-and-less-male-pattern-baldness
Human Evolution: 500 Gene Variants Discovered Since the Ice Age: In a new study, researchers have discovered for the first time 500 gene variants that have ...
nzz.ch/wissenschaft/menschliche-evolution-500-genvarianten-seit-der-eiszeit-entdeckt-ld.1934281
Human evolution has accelerated to favour traits like red hair, lower body fat: study
ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/human-evolution-has-accelerated-to-favour-traits-like-red-hair-and-lower-body-fat-study/
How natural selection really shaped humanity: Adaptation in response to evolutionary pressure is surprisingly common
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ekathimerini.com Apr 17
Nature is still molding human genes, study finds: Many scientists have contended that humans have evolved very little over the past 10,000 years.
ekathimerini.com/nytimes/1301045/nature-is-still-molding-human-genes-study-finds/
Red hair and thinning hair: Study of ancient DNA shows human evolution has accelerated over the past 10,000 years
nationalpost.com/news/red-hair-and-thinning-hair-study-of-ancient-dna-shows-human-evolution-has-accelerated-over-the-past-10000-years
Dear gingers, there's some new Harvard research come out about human evolution and it mentions you.
Evolution thinks red hair is desirable — but we don’t know why: Scientists say human beings are still evolving and that red hair, susceptibility to coeliac ...
thetimes.com/uk/science/article/red-hair-coeliac-disease-human-evolution-research-news-zspzltgwb
Paid articlePaywallHow farming changed us: Ancient DNA reveals natural selection sped up in recent human evolution
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refractor.io Apr 14
The oldest known evidence of stitched clothing: Rare 12,600-year-old stitched elk hide discovered reveals sophisticated early human clothing technology and ...
refractor.io/history/oldest-evidence-stitched-clothing-fabric-prehistoric-oregon/
New Atlas Apr 12
The oldest known evidence of stitched clothing: Rare 12,600-year-old stitched elk hide discovered reveals sophisticated early human clothing technology and ...
refractor.io/history/oldest-evidence-stitched-clothing-fabric-prehistoric-oregon/
What Is 2001: A Space Odyssey’s Real Scientific Legacy? Everything You Need to Know
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Who would win in a fight between 100 men and 1 gorilla? An expert’s take: This silly debate provides an opportunity to reflect on human evolution.
nation.africa/kenya/news/explainers/who-would-win-in-a-fight-between-100-men-and-1-gorilla-5403544
Humans in the Andes Are Immune to Something That Would Kill Most People: Human evolution is a weird thing. With enough long-term exposure to something deadly ...
vice.com/en/article/humans-in-the-andes-are-immune-to-something-that-would-kill-most-people/
Neanderthals: Germs, Weather, Lead, or Inbreeding: Why Did the Neanderthals Die Out?
zeit.de/2026/13/neandertaler-aussterben-homo-sapiens-ursachen-forschung
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