Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

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

Jaw fossils found in northern Greece have been cited in claims that human evolution began in Europe rather than Africa. This ...

A: Goosebumps, scientifically known as piloerection, occur when tiny muscles called arrector pili contract at the base of ...

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

When scientists finally freed the skeleton known as Little Foot from South African rock, they expected a familiar ancestor.

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

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

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

The Day Science Fell for One of the Most Absurd Hoaxes Ever On December 18, 1912, a group of distinguished gentlemen gathered ...

Ardipithecus ramidus is a female who lived 4.4 million years ago. Her skeleton has been described as one of the most important discoveries of the past century. Tim White 2009, From Science Oct. 2 ...