A paper published in Nature describes a partial skeleton, KNM-ER 101000, recovered on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana, Kenya. The 42 fossils, dated to roughly 1.5 million years ago, include the ...

New research suggests upright walking and brain growth shaped human right-handedness. This evolutionary process began when ...

The Early Pleistocene fossils of the Koobi Fora Formation, northern Kenya, record two well-documented hominin genera, Homo ...

The recent discovery of a 2.8 million year-old fossilized jawbone in Ethiopia is helping scientists clear up a clouded period in the evolution of modern humans. The African continent is rich with ...

Don’t let their small stature fool you - these ‘hobbits’were among the deadliest predators to stalk their jungle island home.

The trackway sheds light on how some hominins moved around their environments and with one another Chimpanzees and Bonobos Use Hugs, Kisses and Friendly Pats to Keep the Peace, Just Like Humans, a New ...

In 1974, on a survey in Hadar in the remote badlands of Ethiopia, U.S. paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray found a piece of an elbow joint jutting from the dirt in a ...

A wearable fingertip sensor continuously measures levodopa levels in sweat, which could enable personalized dosing for patients with Parkinson’s disease.