Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and place ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most debated concepts in biology: evolvability. The work provides the first ...

As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with several other hominins. These include the best-known of our evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, but ...