Africa holds humanity’s entire fossil story, stage by stage
Somewhere in a wind-carved gully in Morocco, a 315,000-year-old face looks back at us. The bones from Jebel Irhoud, reanalyzed…
Scientific study of the origins and development of our species and close relatives, integrating fossils, genetics, and comparative biology.
Somewhere in a wind-carved gully in Morocco, a 315,000-year-old face looks back at us. The bones from Jebel Irhoud, reanalyzed…
Why Neanderthal Mothers Left No Mitochondrial Trace Today Sex bias, chance, and a quiet genetic coup Open an egg cell…
The cave opens like a dark mouth in the limestone of the Zagros Mountains, high above the Great Zab River….
You have probably heard that many people today carry a sliver of Neanderthal DNA. But does that mean we all…