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Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a Miocene ape

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Was our earliest ancestor a knuckle-dragger, or did it walk upright?

Did Sahelanthropus, which lived 7 million years ago, walk on two legs like a modern human? It's complicated

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Green DNA with trees

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Human-plant hybrid cells reveal truth about dark DNA in our genome

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2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution

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A polar bear grizzly bear hybrid , Ursus maritimus, t

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What the family drama of interbreeding polar and grizzly bears reveals

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A hand holding glowing prion proteins, from which fossils and microbes emerge.

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A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life

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The bones arranged in the approximate anatomical position of the right foot

Humans

Ancient human foot bones shed light on how two species coexisted

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Sperm's evolutionary origins go back before multicellular animals

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Humans

Kissing may have evolved in an ape ancestor 21 million years ago

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New Denisovan discovery could rewrite our family tree

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New Denisovan discovery could rewrite our family tree

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Sperm are selfish – and so are we

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Sperm are selfish – and so are we

A new study hammers home how the "survival of the nicest" view makes no sense when it comes to evolution, says Jonathan R. Goodman

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Humans

Cradle of humanity is still revealing new insights about our origins

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Having children plays a complicated role in the rate we age

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Humans

Does the family tree of ancient humans need a drastic rewrite?

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Neanderthal-human hybrids may have been scourged by a genetic mismatch

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