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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A new study suggests ...

Hominin foot bones found in 3.4-million-year-old sediments in Ethiopia have been assigned to a recently described species.

The search for our origins go back to a single common ancestor. The search for our origins go back to a single common ancestor -- one that remains shrouded in mystery. It’s the ancestor of everything ...

A single new fossil can change the way we think about human origins, but discovering it — deep in a cave or buried in rock — remains a daunting struggle for hammer-wielding paleoanthropologists. “It ...

In the United States, race, ancestry, genetics, and medicine are inextricably linked in a complex and fraught history. Medicine is replete with examples of racial injustice inflicted by the use of ...

Scientists have found a 47-million-year-old human ancestor. Discovered in Germany, the fossil is 20 times older than most fossils that explain human evolution. Known as "Ida," the fossil is a ...

How do scientists figure out relationships between living things? Some scientists compare every single feature of every single organism to try to work out their evolutionary relationships. But, ...

Researchers suggest the last common ancestor of the apes was substantially smaller than previously thought. The last common ancestor of apes and humans remains a mysterious animal. Dr. Mark Grabowski ...