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 ...

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

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 ...

Millions of years ago, much of the region was lush woodland. Tim White / Brill Atlanta Hunting for hominid fossils in Ethiopia, researchers "collect every piece of bone, every piece of wood ...

How do we know when they lived? Estimating the age of hominid fossils is usually a painstaking, two-part process, involving both "absolute" and "relative" dating. "Absolute" dating means finding a ...

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 ...

Scientists have identified at least four hominid species—in addition to our own, Homo sapiens—that lived in this region at various times over the past 3.5 million years. “Fossils from South ...

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

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

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