The fossilized chompers are evidence of a previously unknown hominin that coexisted with the earliest humans 2.8 million ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Geraru, Ethiopia, that hominin ancestors lived alongside each other reinforce the idea that evolution wasn’t a straight line.

Neanderthals still shared the Earth with our ancestors. Recent discoveries are challenging our linear view of human evolution ...

Scientists are studying five Turkish siblings with Unertan syndrome and how genetics and environment influence their ...

The teeth also confirm that there were at least four types of hominins throughout East Africa at the time, with a fifth ...

Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species ...

Before evolution gave them the right teeth, early humans were already feasting on grasses and tubers. That bold choice may ...

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 ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of the practice, which was often led by women, and was just as crucial to ...