The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

An international team from Tel Aviv University and France’s National Centre for Scientific Research announced that a reanalysis of a child’s skull from Skhul Cave on Mount Carmel in Israel provided ...

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of the practice, which was often led by women, and was just as crucial to ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

The teeth also confirm that there were at least four types of hominins throughout East Africa at the time, with a fifth ...

The fossilized chompers are evidence of a previously unknown hominin that coexisted with the earliest humans 2.8 million ...