Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

Homo habilis has long been considered the earliest member of the human genus, known for its association with early stone tools. This episode explores the fossil evidence from East Africa, the debate ...

It's considered one of the most decisive steps in human evolution. Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed when our ...

Over 36 years since its discovery in Ethiopia’s Afar Depression, the 3.2 million year old skeleton of Lucy is still the most famous in all of paleoanthropology. Older fossil humans have been found, as ...

Skull, Australopithecus prometheus, South Africa(Courtesy the University of the Witwatersrand) A new dating technique is making it easier for paleoanthropologists to study the human evolutionary ...

Early humans may have feasted on Neanderthal children 45,000 years ago, according to a grisly new study. Researchers have analysed bones found in a Belgian cave where cannibalism was known to have ...

3-D model of a modern human ear (left) and a Neanderthal ear (right) The advent of spoken language was one of the key developments in human evolution, but for speech to have meaning, it has to be ...

One of the most important questions in human evolution concerns the identity of the first human to leave Africa. A new study, however, fundamentally challenges the central role traditionally ...

New evidence suggests that upright walking may have begun 7 million years ago, reshaping what we thought we knew about our ...

The pair are currently engaged in intense metaphysical fisticuffs about a man who died roughly 60,000 years ago, by the shores of once-verdant Lake Mungo in south-eastern NSW. More specifically, they ...

A recently analyzed Homo habilis skeleton, dating back over 2 million years, is reshaping our understanding of early human ...