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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 ...
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The primate mind in a mouse: How your gut bacteria might be the secret to human evolution

Groundbreaking research reveals that human microbes can trigger genetic brain activity in other species, suggesting our ...
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Early Human Ancestor Found in Morocco Dates Back 700,000 Years May Be Major Missing Link

A nearly-complete adult jawbone, a partial adult jawbone, the jawbone of a child, a vertebrae and some teeth were discovered.

Human evolution’s biggest mystery has started to unravel. How 2025 tipped the scales

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.
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Tiny bump on 7 million-year-old fossil suggests ancient ape walked upright — and might even be a human ancestor

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

Deep Sulawesi cave dig could reveal overlap between extinct humans and us

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

Embracing the Great Age of Discovery for Human Evolution: Tianqiao Chen

Those who use their bodies to survey the boundaries.
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Last common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals possibly found in Casablanca, Morocco

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...