More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...
The remains of at least 16 individuals, including children, have been discovered in a cave in eastern China, and are believed ...
About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...
Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the ...
The footprints are the first clear evidence that the two hominin species shared a habitat, raising questions about whether ...
The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...
Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...
In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...
Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.
They say the first storyteller lived between 200,000 and 700,000 years ago among the species of human known as homo ...
Beyond mere biological evolution, the story of our species is filled with cultural and technological revolutions that have ...
Paleoanthropologists have learned a lot about Lucy, the world’s most famous hominin fossil, since she was discovered in 1974. And her fossils are still yielding new insights ...