Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

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Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...

Supernovas, the explosive deaths of massive stars, could have had a devastating impact on Earth's atmosphere, leading to mass ...

Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still portrait by tracing where your ancestors moved across the globe over time. The statistical method can also be used ...

Volcanic ash in Turkey has unlocked the precise ages of key fossil sites—reshaping what we know about mammal evolution and ...

One of the method's applications is to give a more complete sense of human ancestry, says Gideon Bradburd, U-M professor of ecology and evolutionary ... The method uses modern genetic sequence ...

University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as ...