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The Ducks (13-1, 9-1 Big Ten) and Hoosiers (14-0, 9-0 Big Ten) meet in Atlanta, with kickoff set for 4:30 PM Pacific Time on ESPN. The Daily... Digging in the dirt of East Africa for ancient monkey ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists are in ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

Human evolution has often been depicted as a process of adaptation, where natural selection and genetic changes drive species toward better-suited traits for survival in their environments. But this ...

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They’re not monkeying around with this breakthrough. Researchers from New York University Langone Health may have finally learned how early humans took a major step away from predecessor primates in ...

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 ...

Over the course of our long, complicated evolutionary history, humans have seen our brains triple in size, now weighing in at roughly three pounds on average. At some point along the way, humans ...