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.

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

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

Recent work has also revealed that Homo sapiens interbred with three separate Denisovan populations. As a consequence, all ...

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

Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the ...

The Levant, encompassing modern-day Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian territories, was a cultural crossroads during the Middle Paleolithic period. Both groups of hominins arrived at similar ...

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were neighbors some 1.5 million years ago ...

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