The classification of one of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever discovered, the skeleton known as Little Foot, has been called into question by an international research team led from La ...

Explore Neanderthal facts, from looks to lifestyle and abilities. These early humans are far more similar to us than once believed. Wanting to understand who we are, where we come from and how we ...

A million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study.

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

The mystery of human evolution is nowhere close to being resolved. Every new discovery not only peels off the layer of truth but also brings forth a plethora of questions. The recent fossil discovery ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...

Researchers analyzing a number of bones that were found in an Israeli quarry more than a decade ago have confirmed they are from a branch of the human evolutionary tree connected to Neanderthals and ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...

Ancestors of modern humans who lived 4.4 million years ago were well-suited to swinging in trees and a life in the branches. Hand bones of Ardi, a member of the ancient human relative species ...

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Extinct humanoids dubbed ‘hobbits’ because of their short stature may have been one of oldest forms of humans, according to new research. Since the discovery of their remains on the Indonesian island ...