Yet despite this growing interest in consciousness, the million-dollar question remains: does the stoned ape theory have any ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

At the Atapuerca archaeological site in Burgos, Spain, the oldest human in Western Europe was discovered for the third time, ...

pushing the boundaries of our understanding of evolution in Western Europe. Comparison of the zygomaxillary border and the zygomaxillary tubercle. This discovery, published in Nature, opens a new ...

The story about our ancestors can change at any moment thanks to the tireless work of researchers. In 2022, a team of experts unearthed fragments of a human skull in the Sima del E ...

The discovery is particularly important as it places the arrival of the first populations in Europe before the 'Homo ...

This finding not only strengthens Atapuerca's role as a global reference in the study of human evolution, but also opens up new questions about the diversity of hominids that inhabited Europe in ...

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found ...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic evidence suggests our unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 ...