Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

When we think about humans’ existence on Earth, many of us think that we’ve always been one of a kind. But here’s the thing: ...

New research on the limb bones of the famous Little Foot skeleton from the Wits Sterkfontein Caves suggests that a major ...

The result adds a new line of evidence to a long-running question in human evolution: not simply when our ancestors first ...

The discovery of Homo floresiensis, often termed a hobbit, confused a lot of people. Not only was it tiny in stature, but it shared some features with both Homo erectus and earlier Australopithecus ...

For years, scientists believed that Homo erectus was the first human species to venture out of Africa around 1.8 million years ago. However, a recent study of fossilized teeth from the Dmanisi site ...

Anthropologists define a "grade shift" when a species shares structural and/or behavioral characteristics different from their ancestors. They also agree that the appearance of Homo erectus about 2 ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels over and draws its last breath. The carcass is soon set on by hyenas, who ...

Fósiles, cambios climáticos y millones de años de evolución permiten reconstruir con mayor precisión el escenario en el que apareció el Homo sapiens.