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 ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with a newly identified species of Australopithecus nearly three million years ...

Long before evolution equipped them with the right teeth, early humans began eating tough grasses and starchy underground plants—foods rich in energy but hard to chew. A new study reveals that this ...

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

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...

The team also examined 4,500 rodent bones from Liang Bua and found no charring.

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

Prehistoric human relatives, nicknamed “hobbits” due to their short stature, may have been scavengers, rather than skilled hunters capable of taking down big game or building cooking fires, according ...

A partial skull recovered from central Türkiye has added evidence to a major paleoanthropological debate: where the hominine ...

When Louis Leakey and Mary Nicol first met, he asked her to help with illustrations for his upcoming (1934) book Adam's Ancestors: An Up-to-Date Outline of What is Known about the Origin of Man.

Darwin himself considered language and fire the two most significant achievements of humanity. Illustration by Frank Stockton Wherever humans have gone in the world, they have carried with them two ...