The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, continues to capture human imagination.

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

An evolutionary chart of different human ancestors. “Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” said Moraes.

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 ...

A 2.8 million-year-old jawbone fossil unearthed in the desert of Ethiopia, and another 1.8 million-year-old jaw that has been digitally reconstructed, have just completely changed what we know ...

This year—2021—has been a year of progress in overcoming the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on human evolution research. With some research projects around the world back up and running, we ...

This technological leap has resulted in a dazzling discovery: there was not one, but at least three separate waves of recent human–Neanderthal admixture in the last 250,000 years. The earliest ...

JEFFREY BROWN: The 1.8 million-year-old skull is the most complete ever found of a human ancestor from what's known as the human genus Homo. It was unearthed in 2005 below a medieval village in ...

The findings may alter how anthropologists think about human evolution. Weaver's study appears in the March 17 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It builds on findings from ...

Deep inside a Portuguese cave, the fossil of a human cranium lay buried for 400,000 years, surrounded by a smattering of stone tools and animal remains. A team of archeologists recently retrieved ...

Thanks to the uniqueness of the Homo sapiens chin, while we have a rich set of possible explanations for its evolutionary purpose, in the absence of convergent evolution, we have no sensible way of ...