While the rapid increase in brain size is widely recognized as a key factor in human evolution, many studies have focused on understanding the evolutionary patterns and processes behind it. However, ...

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A new study has unveiled a potential new member of the human family tree. This mysterious species, named Homo juluensis, includes the enigmatic Denisovans – our ancient human relatives whose stories ...

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The term hominin refers to all species in the human family tree that emerged after the split from the ancestors of the great apes 6 million to 7 million years ago. This group includes more ...

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than earlier species, a new study of human brain evolution has found.

These two species are ancestral cousins of modern Homo sapiens and were the most common human species during the Pleistocene epoch. Anthropologist Prof Craig Feibel has spent more than 40 years ...