A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...

Osbjorn Pearson In 2012, fossils from a rare Homo habilis skeleton were uncovered along the shores of Lake Turkana in ...

The origin of modern humans may require some revisiting by experts, as they have gathered some crucial insights from the investigation of a one-million-year-old skull from China, suggesting previous ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be ...