The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

T uesday’s Google Doodle marks the discovery of “Lucy”, a skeleton found 41 years ago in Ethiopia that helped scientists understand the evolution of apes into bipedal humans. Named after the ...

Fossils of early humans from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old, a million years older than previously suspected. The discovery is changing our understanding of ...

The study concluded that Australopithecus sediba was a transitional form of ancient human relative and its spine is clearly intermediate in shape between those of modern humans and great apes ...

The skull, probably a male’s, belonged to a species called Australopithecus anamensis, an older relative to Lucy.

Consequently, Australopithecus sediba would either be ancestral to Homo or close to the ancestry of our genus on the basis of its similarities to Homo erectus, but is this interpretation correct?

Analyzing the chemistry of some ancient teeth has revealed what human ancestors were eating around 3 million years ago.

While it is impossible to tell from the scratches whether Australopithecus was making stone tools or using naturally sharp rocks, the lack of adequate rock material in the immediate area where the ...