Early mammalian ancestors were nocturnal, sleeping during the day while the dinosaurs dominated the land. However, some mammalian lineages, including human ancestors, independently transitioned to ...

They open up the possibility of an evolutionary link with the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils – those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to around 315,000 years ago. These discoveries help clarify ...

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...

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For the better part of the last decade, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts were treated just as a statistic.\xa0 For gender, this often meant a single, focused goal, increasing the ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic signature locked into the surrounding sediments. The hominin remains show a blend ...

RABAT — A newly announced fossil discovery is further cementing Morocco’s central place in the prehistory of humanity. On Jan. 7, Moroccan and international researchers revealed the unearthing of ...

Humans’ exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme ...

Getting injuries from burns played a central role in the rapid evolution of humans, according to a new study. Scientists at Imperial College London argue that humans’ close relationship with fire ...

773,000-year-old mandible ThI-GH-1 from Thomas Quarry in Morocco. Credit: Hamza Mehimdate, Programme Préhistoire de Casablanca Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed ...