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The top human evolution discoveries of 2025, from the intriguing Neanderthal diet to the oldest Western European face fossil

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 ...
Amaze Lab on MSN

New fossil discovery shakes up 2.8 million-year human evolution timeline

Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...
World Socialist Web Site

New evidence for the earliest intentional human fire-making

The controlled use of fire was a key part of the development of human technology with a range of uses that greatly expanded human cultural evolution. Although evidence at a number of archaeological ...
National Catholic Reporter

Too little, too late: The church's inadequate response to AI-human evolution

While the Vatican acknowledges stages of technological development, it lacks a model of integrating science and religion that can adequately assess the influence of technology. The Vatican's approach, ...
The Conversation

Human ancestors were exposed to lead millions of years ago, and it shaped our evolution

Renaud Joannes-Boyau receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Manish Arora receives funding from US National Institutes of Health. He is the founder of Linus Biotechnology, a start-up ...
Live Science

Human evolution: Facts about the past 300,000 years of Homo sapiens

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...