Standing tall thus might result in a substantial ... it would amount to a kind of grand unified theory of early hominid evolution. Any trait that proves to be so advantageous that it is passed ...

View Larger Diagram Pedro Velasco / 5W Infographics Tim White is standing with ... is possible here to find hominid fossils from as recently as 160,000 years ago—an early Homo sapiens like ...

A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a hominid skull, nicknamed “Dragon Head,” near Hualongdong that doesn’t fit ...

The Taung and other fossils—more primitive than Eurasian hominids but still possessing human characteristics, such as the ability to walk upright—compelled early-hominid hunters to shift their ...