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

Two species of ancient humans walked beside each other 1.5 million years ago, fossil footprints have revealed. Fossilised ...

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

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

A discovery in northern Kenya hints that two extinct species that were our ancient relatives shared the same habitat and ...

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...

Researchers believe that the extinct human species lived in small groups, which might have made them susceptible to ...

Engels applied the logic of materialist dialectics to the problem of human evolution with important, though rarely ...

The thinking of early theorists was that our evolution was a coordinated, linear process. Our ancestors’ brains grew steadily ...

A study comparing fossil skulls and great ape anatomy reveals how temporal lobes evolved in response to social complexity and ...

Beyond mere biological evolution, the story of our species is filled with cultural and technological revolutions that have ...

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