The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...
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Did humans really evolve from primates? Here’s what we know
It’s a common mistake to think we came directly from the monkeys or chimps you see at the zoo today, […] ...
Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave art that we don’t have the technology to date. Columnist Michael Marshall ...
The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought. By Franz Lidz Early ...
Whether you’re working on a simple fix or a big project, the smaller version of a tool is almost always the better one. Credit... Supported by By Tim Heffernan Visuals by Clark Hodgin It’s been a year ...
New burial dating techniques applied to South African cave sediments reveal that Australopithecus fossils are far older than previously believed. The revised dates reshape early human evolution and ...
One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an international research team. The famous “Little Foot” skeleton from South Africa has ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...
Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...
WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the "Burtele Foot" discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, finding they belonged to an enigmatic human ...
Mass-produced tools have flooded the market, but there are still a handful of American-made brands making tools built for tough jobs. If you want tools that won’t fall apart after a year or two, ...
Australopithecus Africanus lived around 3.3 – 2.1 million years ago in Southern Africa, hence the name Australopithecus (Southern ape) Africanus (from Africa). Two skulls have been discovered to be ...
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