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

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

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

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

Humans are fundamentally technological creatures. We depend on the manufacture and use of tools for our survival to a degree qualitatively greater than any other species. Therefore, an understanding ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

About 3.8 million years ago, a distant human relative took his final steps. Swept into a river delta, his head was buried in sand that, over time, hardened into a stone helmet. The skull fossilized ...

The face of an ancient human ancestor that lived 3.8 million years ago has been revealed by scientists following the discovery of a near-complete skull in Ethiopia's Woranso-Mille complex—an ...