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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Arizona State University researchers unearthed fossils in Ethiopia that may have belonged to a previously undiscovered ...