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

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

The new finds reinforced that human evolution was more of a tangled-up bush. Different species and different branches of the ...

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

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

The virtually complete Australopithecus fossil "Little Foot" is displayed at the University of the Witwatersrand in ...

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

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

A team of international scientists has discovered new fossils at a field site in Africa that indicate Australopithecus, and ...

Ethical frameworks are needed to guide posthuman life toward robust, sustainable futures, but theology and spirituality can ...

Shamahi, host of NOVA's ambitious five-part series, Human, which captures Homo Sapiens' 300,000 year journey from underdog to ...

Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 ...