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 ...

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

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

A small group of ancient humans discovered in South Asia has the potential to change evolution as most people know it.

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

Study provides first evidence of different bipedalism styles on same footprint surface, attributed to both 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 ...

Scientists have discovered a new human species that went extinct 200,000 ... Their head measurements, which were bigger than Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, led the team to naming a new prehistoric ...

Modern humans (from around 300,000 years ago) Many people look at human evolution chiefly to explain us, Homo sapiens. But we are the culmination of a long process of evolution—no more than 5% ...