The way Lucy has been depicted in newspapers, textbooks and museums shows how today’s cultural norms influence perceptions of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Philippe Charlier, médecin légiste et paléoanthropologue, fait parler les morts grâce à la science. De Louis XIV à Diane de ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists shocked to learn that 1.4-million-year-old fossilized footprints found on an ancient lakeshore were from ...

Addis Ababa, January 21, 2026 (ENA)— A research team led by Zeresenay Alemseged, a researcher at the University of Chicago in the United States, discovered 2.6 million-year-old hominin species fossil ...