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

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

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

New research reveals that scavenging may have helped early humans adapt, expand, and endure tough seasons through smart use ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

The findings are based on a reconstruction of a crushed skull discovered in China in 1990, and have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

The discovery of chemical signatures of lead in hominid fossils challenges our understanding of ancient environmental ...

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 ...