A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

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Myopia is booming, with almost one in three people affected globally. Can we stop the epidemic of short-sightedness?

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

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Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

A new Yale-led study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses to date of genetic variation in human populations in Oceania, filling a major gap in representation in genomics ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

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Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate deserts and frozen wastelands and all the temperate climes in between.