In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

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 ...

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Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

Fossils of Danuvius guggenmosi, discovered in Germany, suggest upright walking evolved in apes far earlier than previously thought. Dating to about 11.6 million years ago, the remains show a ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for ...

Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins – and produced a “bizarre” evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage – according to a new University of Cambridge study ...

National Research Council (U.S.) Board on Earth Sciences and Resources "The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it ...

It has long been understood that large-scale shifts in the global climate correspond to changes in terrestrial ecosystems as a result of alterations in available habitats. Accordingly, researchers ...

Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system ...

Understanding Climate's Change on Human Evolution suggests a new scientific program for international climate and human evolution studies that involve an exploration initiative to locate new fossil ...