The international research team, which included CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), discovered that ...

Evolution has given humans countless unique features, but one body part stands out as an unsolved puzzle: the human chin.

A million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study.

The region of the human genome that harbours genes encoding amylase enzymes, which are crucial for starch digestion, shows extensive structural diversity. Amylase genes have been duplicated and ...

Human evolution might be more "bizarre" than we once thought, according to a new study. In the past, scientists believed that hominin evolution was largely driven by changes in climate. But now, ...

Scientists have discovered a 3.5 million-year-old skull in Kenya that may force them to rethink the central place of the fossil nicknamed "Lucy" in the human evolutionary tree. The skull was ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A 300,000 year-old fossilized skull discovered in China is proving ...