Lauren Schroeder has loved dinosaurs since age 3 and bones since she was 10. In her second year of university, she started studying the early evolution of the Homo genus and it turned into her Ph.D.

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The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Antón told Newsweek: "This does not change the broad strokes of what we know about human evolution. Based on the DNA we knew about the existence of the Denisovan lineage and its relationship to ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

An ancient skull found in China is like nothing scientists have ever seen. The teen's head shape doesn't fit with any of the early human relatives seen to date. If it's an undiscovered human ancestor, ...

Dr. Gwen Kay, associate professor of history at SUNY Oswego, spoke to a small audience in Mann Library yesterday about the history surrounding the reorganization of Cornell’s then College of Home ...

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