A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...

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 ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

A futurist has claimed that there are three phases of human evolution, and our species is currently in the second phase. Jeffrey Charles Hardy, who founded the non-profit Care for Peace, developed a ...

While scientists know humans (homo sapiens) emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago, before this monumental event much of our history has been hazy. Now a team from the University of Cambridge has ...

Today, we sit alone on the only remaining branch of the human family tree. But we are only one character in the story of human evolution. To truly understand who we are, we must look at how we got ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...