For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

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We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as well ...

Maybe, with a little luck, he would make another discovery that would change the map of human evolution. A version of this story appears in the February 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.

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Since the Scopes trial in 1925, Science News has reported on legislative attempts to undermine the teaching of evolution.