Most people rarely think about which hand they use to button a shirt, hold a spoon or write a shopping list. The choice feels ...

Kayleigh explains why her playlist title “Hominids” is not wrong: hominids include all great apes, while hominins include humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and their closer evolutionary branches after key ...

A new study has called into question a long-held assumption in anthropology: that human ancestors gradually increased in size over millions of years, and in a linear manner. Researchers from the ...

Summary: A new study overturned a long-standing anthropological assumption: that human ancestors grew steadily and progressively larger over millions of years. Instead, an analysis of 386 fossils ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

Summary: A new evolutionary study offers a compelling solution to one of anthropology’s oldest puzzles: why roughly 90% of humans are right-handed, a population-level bias unique among primates. The ...

Graecopithecus lived 7.2 million years ago in the dust-laden savannah of the Athens basin. Credit: Veliza Simeonovski The fossil, unearthed at the Azmaka site, near the Bulgarian town of Chirpan in ...

Scientists have finally come face-to-face with an ancient human ancestor called Little Foot. A new digital reconstruction reveals the visage of one of our oldest close human relatives, researchers ...

More interestingly, the scientists also noticed that there was a tight fit between the infant A. afarensis and its birth canal. This could mean that their species may have had complications during ...