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

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

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

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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