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 ...

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

This evolutionary shift is evident in the 3.2-million-year-old hominid fossil named "Lucy." Without this subtle change, our walk would look more like a chimp's, with a distinct off-balance waddle.

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long ...

If there was any lingering question about the early manifestation of bipedality in human evolutionary history, it has been erased by recent fossil discoveries: a 4.4-million-year-old hominid from ...

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.

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The technique allowed them to peer deep into the fossils, and trace the webs of fractures within. A key piece of evidence to unravelling the mystery of Lucy’s death lay in a fracture between her ...

Remains of the dead may be recent, as in forensic anthropology, pre-historic, as in bioarchaeology, or ancient, as in hominid and primate fossils of the past 60 million years. For living groups, ...

Ignacio A. Lazagabaster, a paleontologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), is ...