The latest fossils add to a skull and other remains of a species named Homo naledi -- hominids that lived around 250,000 years ago - Copyright AFP ADITYA AJI The ...

The next time a creationist spouts some nonsense about how the lack of a fossil record undermines the theory of evolution, direct them to the hominid family tree. If you haven't read much about human ...

To get to the bottom of the cave, you have to tuck through a tiny crack with a so-called Superman’s Crawl, says National Geographic, one arm out in front of you like the Man of Steel himself. A pair ...

The males of two bipedal hominid species that roamed the South African savannah more than a million years ago were stay-at-home kind of guys when compared to the gadabout gals, says a new high-tech ...

THE textbook version of how humans evolved in Africa and then travelled out to the rest of the world may have to be torn up. Humans may not after all have had to become highly intelligent, with big ...

Researchers using techniques of magnetostratigraphy have determined that a rock formation in Israel called Erk-el-Ahmar is between 1.7 million and 2.0 million years old, making the hominid tools and ...

Purdue's Darryl Granger and Marc Caffee have determined the age of a fossilized skeleton thought to be an Australopithecus – a genus of African hominids from which humanity is thought to have ...

George Busby receives funding from Wellcome, the Medical Research Council, Oxford University and The Royal Geographical Society. One of the more startling discoveries arising from genomic sequencing ...

This new dating would be added to other evidence that would tip the balance in favour of the colonization of Europe through the Strait of Gibraltar. New geological datings place the first European ...

The discovery was published in two papers in the journal PaleoAnthropology, with 21 researchers from South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand and 13 other institutions around the world. gs/ri ...