When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

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 recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

This very lifestyle, of standing and walking on two legs unlike some of our primate predecessors, may have been key to supercharging the survival and reproductive advantage of our ancestral species.

Human flexibility in shoulders and elbows originated from ancient apes' need for safe tree descent. A new study reveals ...

The findings of this study suggest that the first humans may have originated from apes that were accustomed to living in two ...

The first example of Paranthropus was discovered in South Africa by Dr Robert Broom in 1938. Its name means “beside man” and ...

Lead is a powerful neurotoxin that disrupts the growth and function of both brain and body. There is no safe level of lead exposure, and even the smallest traces can impair memory, learning and ...