Of all the early human ancestor fossils ever found, “Lucy” may be the most famous among examples of Australopithecus, a group ...
A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...
The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...
A new digital reconstruction of Little Foot’ face, one of our oldest human ancestors, is giving scientists a fresh look at ...
FILE: Reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany, March 2009 ...
Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...
Homo juluensis was identified as a possible new human species that lived in eastern Asia about 300,000 years ago and vanished ...
Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...
In this fascinating talk, paleoanthropologist Juliet Brophy explains the shocking discovery of nearly 1,800 fossils from a mysterious human species called Homo naledi. Found deep inside South Africa’s ...
Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we ...
New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on the X chromosome.