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 ...

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 ...