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Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa. Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million years ago. Ardi's bones ...

Languages: English. A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and ...

who says that human populations in both Africa and Eurasia contributed to the evolution of anatomically modern humans (Figure 1; Wolpoff et al., 2000). Just as scientists have used mtDNA to ...

When evolution skeptics want to attack Darwin's theory, they often point to the human eye. How could something so complex, they argue, have developed through random mutations and natural selection ...

Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths and the weaknesses of a body plan inherited from distant ancestors, giving us an efficient and graceful gait and a range of painful problems from ...