The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new ...

Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

The research included professors Kevin Hatala from Chatham U. in Pittsburgh and Craig Feibel of Rutgers and showed two human ...

A recent study published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology suggests that for 2 million years, Homo sapiens and ...

We break down some common myths about our early human ancestors—and what makes our species, ‘Homo sapiens,’ so different from ...

An international team of researchers said Thursday that they had found two sets of hominin footprints that were made about ...

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.