The discovery of a new fossil has once again turned our understanding of human evolution on its head. This monumental find ...

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

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 ...

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

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with ...

The Neanderthal DNA found in modern human genomes has long raised questions about ancient interbreeding. New studies offer a timeline of when that occurred and when ancient humans left Africa.

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave ...

Now a new study in Nature led by Harvard scientists reveals two key genetic shifts that remodeled the pelvis to help human ancestors become the upright bipeds ...

Research led by Institut de Paléontologie Humaine is providing a finite minimum age for a nearly complete cranium from ...

A new study dates Greece’s Petralona Cave skull to as much as 500,000 years, offering fresh insight into early human evolution in Europe.

A new human species has been identified from 2.65-million-year-old fossils found in Ethiopia, reshaping views on our ...