As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop ...

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 ...

The findings come from a team led by researchers at Dartmouth College, and offer the human fossil record’s first known ...

The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) participated in a study, published in the Journal of ...

Cut marks on a child's cervical vertebra found at Atapuerca in Spain suggests Homo antecessor was indiscriminate about ...

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, ...

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

There were, however, things that Dart could not have known and details that he misconstrued. Today — a century on — the fossil is still prompting questions about human evolution. Fresh finds ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the earliest known Homo sapiens.

Scientists made a surprising discovery when studying fossils of a distant human relative – Paranthropus robustus ...