The origin of the human lineage ~7 million years ago seems far removed from the Early Miocene (23 to 16 million years ago), but in fact there are surprising resonances in the anatomy, environment, and ...

Genetic research does not always produce tidy answers. Sometimes it reveals traces that raise more questions than they settle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years ...

A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives ...

This world-famous fossil is now on display in Abu Dhabi, allowing visitors to see up close one of the most important finds in ...

Deep inside a cave system in Europe, a 60,000‑year‑old assemblage of human remains and artifacts has forced researchers to rethink how our species emerged and spread. Instead of a neat story in which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...

Almost 20 years ago, the discovery of a human skeleton with a chimp-sized brain and short stature (~1 meter) in a cave on a remote Indonesian island shocked both scientists and the general public ...