A study claims the first humans lived in a wetland around what is now northern Botswana. Prill/Shutterstock October 31, 2019 Botswana is humanity’s ancestral home, claims major study – well, actually … Isabelle Catherine Winder, Bangor University It's likely our species doesn't actually have a single origin.
A live Padaungiella lageniformis wiggles its pseudopods. Daniel J. G. Lahr February 28, 2019 ‘Micro snails’ we scraped from sidewalk cracks help unlock details of ancient earth’s biological evolution Matthew Brown, Mississippi State University and Daniel Lahr, Universidade de São Paulo Using the family relationships between single-celled protists alive today, researchers hypothesized what their evolutionary ancestors looked like – and then looked in the fossil record for matches.
Shutterstock September 4, 2018 How animals went from single cells to over 30 different body types Jordi Paps Montserrat, University of Essex Most animal groups adopted their shapes quickly but some kept evolving.