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

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

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

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

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

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

Scientists have discovered a new human species that went extinct 200,000 years ago which had large heads and immense teeth.

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

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

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

But this oversimplified view of human evolution is not quite right ... to evolve by gaining new traits, say Homo erectus evolves into Homo sapiens. Or maybe they interbreed with other species ...

The remains of at least 16 individuals, including children, have been discovered in a cave in eastern China, and are believed ...