Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...
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Human brains may have started shrinking thousands of years ago. Scientists still can’t agree why
For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ancestors’ brains expanded from ape-sized organs into the relatively oversized ...
Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...
Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...
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