Scientists studying fossils from Ethiopia’s Afar Rift have uncovered evidence of another early human species which lived ...

Modern humans, technically called Homo sapiens, are the only surviving species of the genus Homo, which also includes extinct close cousins such as Homo neanderthalensis and Homo erectus. The oldest ...

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...