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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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Anthropologists discover seven million-year-old walking ape that could be earliest human ancestor

Anthropologists have uncovered evidence of an ancient ape species that roamed Africa on two feet seven million years ago, ...

Is this humankind's earliest ancestor? Scientists argue a 7 million-year-old ape-like animal was the first to walk on two legs

It's considered one of the most decisive steps in human evolution. Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed when our ...

Seven million-year-old walking ape could be earliest human ancestor

The oldest ancestor of humans may be a seven-million-year-old ape, which started walking upright two million years earlier ...

Relax into the right posture

Sitting is a stable position that should ideally reduce pressure on the body, yet many people collapse their posture, which ...

Our ancestors were CANNIBALS: Scientists discover grisly evidence ancient human species ate Neanderthal children 45,000 years ago

Early humans may have feasted on Neanderthal children 45,000 years ago, according to a grisly new study. Researchers have ...