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

The timing of the first human arrival in the Americas remains one of the most debated questions in archaeology. Evidence from ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

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