The traditional labels Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus may no longer match the tangled relationships revealed by the ...

The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be ...

Homo erectus was among the first ancient human species that would have looked recognizably human to us. Walking fully upright ...

Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, ...

A hidden force let humans smash a barrier that had trapped our ancestors for millions of years.

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Most people assume that only modern humans, Homo sapiens, bury and honor their dead in ritualistic ceremonies. Yet the oldest ...

Paleoanthropologists agree that modern humans evolved in Africa about 200,000 years ago, yet the fossil evidence for the earliest examples of Homo sapiens is scarce. One problem is the difficulty in ...

Scientists today announced that the Rising Star Cave system has revealed yet more important discoveries, only a year and a half after it was announced that the richest fossil hominin site in Africa ...

In the early 1930s, Dutch anthropologists found a giant bed of bones hidden above the banks of the Solo River on the Indonesian island of Java. Buried in the river mud in an area called Ngandong were ...

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