Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

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

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyse the morphology of bones - which is crucial for ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyse the morphology of bones — which is crucial for ...

Paris (AFP) – Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient human relative who lived alongside the species of the famous ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for ...

We, humans, treat animals like animals, so why should we be surprised when we treat humans like animals? If only we could bring ourselves to like animals.

3-D model of a modern human ear (left) and a Neanderthal ear (right) The advent of spoken language was one of the key developments in human evolution, but for speech to have meaning, it has to be ...

A WORLD-FAMOUS fossil nicknamed “Little Foot” may actually belong to a new humanlike species. The fossil was previously ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...