In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system ...

For decades, Little Foot, or StW 573, was seen as a crucial piece of the puzzle in understanding early human ancestors. First ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

A newly published scientific study is reigniting debate over human evolution in Africa after researchers suggested that the ...

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

Fred Spoor is at the Centre for Human Evolution Research, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK, and in the Department of Human Origins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Fossils of Danuvius guggenmosi, discovered in Germany, suggest upright walking evolved in apes far earlier than previously thought. Dating to about 11.6 million years ago, the remains show a ...