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Evolutionary Anthropology: "Burn Selection: How Fire Injury Shaped Human Evolution." A new study argues that over a million years of domestic fire use exposed humans to recurring fire burn injury, driving accelerated genetic evolution in our wound-healing and inflammatory pathways.
Scientists discover the oldest wooden tools ever used by humans
Scientists have uncovered the oldest known hand-held wooden tools ever used by humans — and they’re an astonishing 430,000 years old. Buried for hundreds of thousands of years at a…
China scientists argue that harsh settings, not warm climates, drive early human creativity
The research unveils a more intricate narrative of innovation, intelligence, and human evolution in East Asia.…
Why has more drastic speciation happened in human evolution?
Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference
Of all the monkeys and apes scientists have studied, no species shows a population-level hand preference. Individual primates often have strong biases, and chimpanzees, gorillas, a…
Lost for 150,000 years: Rainforest discovery upends human history
For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments for early survival. But a groundbreaking discovery in Wes…