Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

Learn how early humans evolved at a much faster rate than other apes, adapting larger brains as they developed new ways to ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving ...

Since being discovered in 1994, Ardi’s 4.4-million-year-old remains have been at the heart of an anthropological debate. To ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

New research reveals that scavenging may have helped early humans adapt, expand, and endure tough seasons through smart use ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

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 ...

Ethiopian researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that fundamentally challenges our understanding of human evolution by uncovering fossil evidence of a previously unknown species that ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists are casting doubt on the headline-making study Birds Make an Alarm Call That ...