The Homo genus started approximately 2.3 million years ago when a new species evolved and was distinctly different from the Australopithecines that used to roam the African continent. This is the ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the only existing members of the human family tree. However, our evolutionary journey began around 6 million years ago and gave rise to at least 18 ...

Meanwhile, a big male specimen of Australopithecus afarensis was found to have had limb proportions like those of early members of Homo -- but it lived 3.58 million years ago, way before Homo ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

But it also led to Homo sapiens – the ultimate generalisers. ... the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis was believed to have speciated via anagenesis from Australopithecus anamensis.

A newly documented species, called Australopithecus sediba, was an upright walker that shared many physical traits with the earliest known Homo species -- and its introduction into the fossil ...

The layer containing the Homo sapiens child’s tooth spans 56,800 to 51,700 years ago. In different layers, the scientists discovered eight other teeth that belonged to Neanderthals.

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Elena Zavala of the University of California, Berkeley, about new research showing how homo sapiens and Neanderthals interacted and may have even interbred.