Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving ...

Humans evolved larger brains and flatter faces much faster than other apes, suggesting that intelligence shaped our skulls.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469666006_peacock https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469666006_peacock.3 The focus of this book is the study of symbols ...

Cleveland, OH—May 17, 2022—As part of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s $150-million campaign to transform its building, exhibitions, education programs, and community engagement, the Museum ...

Leipzig University, the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, and the Leipzig-based Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology are further strengthening their cooperation in ...

Fossil evidence from Ethiopia has rewritten human history, showing Australopithecus lived one million years earlier than ...

The American Anthropological Association (AAA), the primary professional society of anthropologists in the United States since its founding in 1902, is the world's largest professional organization of ...