The human body isn’t a masterpiece of design – it’s a patchwork of evolutionary compromise

Our bodies are not perfectly designed, but are a living archive of evolution. Anatomy reveals a historical record of ...
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Researchers find fossils suggesting intelligent tool use pre-humanity

Recent discoveries of fossils have provided evidence suggesting intelligent tool use among pre-human species. This groundbreaking research has the potential to reshape our understanding of early ...
Smithsonian Magazine

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 ...
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Stone tools in human evolution : behavioral differences among technological primates / John J. Shea, Anthropology Department, Stony Brook University

ANTH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Margery Masinter Foundation Endowment for Illustrated Books. "In Stone Tools in Human Evolution, John J. Shea argues that over ...
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New species of ancient humans rewrites the story of early human evolution

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you picture human evolution. These finds, dating back between 2.6 and 2.8 ...
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Fun with fossils: South African kids learn a whole lot more about human evolution from museum workshops

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...