A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study focuses on a hominin jawbone known as SK 15 that was unearthed in 1949 at ...

Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

A groundbreaking discovery in China has uncovered ancient human fossils that could reshape our understanding of human ...

But it's never been clear what species the bones belonged to or where they should sit in an increasingly complex human family tree. Christopher Bae, a professor in the department ... day human ...

But it’s never been clear what species the bones belonged to or where they should sit in an increasingly complex human family tree ... hominins such as Homo erectus, which left Africa about ...

That our branche of the family tree now flourishes suggests our species had some advantages in being able to survive in less-than-ideal conditions and spread out into more varied areas of the planet – ...

That our branche of the family tree now flourishes suggests our species had some advantages in being able to survive in less-than-ideal conditions and spread out into more varied areas of the planet – ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big mystery of human evolution. Their proposal is sparking debate in the scientific ...