Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an international research team. The famous “Little Foot” skeleton from South Africa has ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

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1 Urology Department, The University Hospital Center of Cocody, Abidjan, Ivory Coast. 2 Anatomical Pathology Department, the University Hospital Center of Cocody, Abidjan, Ivory Coast. 3 University ...

This statement might sound like a line from a sci-fi movie, but what if life on Earth didn’t start here at all? For decades, that question sat on the fringe of science, it was filed next to crop ...

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I first became aware of the phrase “human design” while watching the second season of Love is Blind UK earlier this year. In the show, one of the castmates, Patrick Justus, repeatedly said he was ...

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...

Creating human eggs from adult cells just got one step closer to reality. A technique used in cloning combined with fertilization and a bit of chemical coaxing caused human skin cells to produce eggs ...

Human is a five-part Nova series, produced by the BBC, that takes a look at the origins and survival of the human race. The host is paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, and she travels to various ...

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