An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

“Most genetic work has focused on how mating with Neanderthals impacted modern human evolution, but these questions are also ...

New data is revealing deeper insights into how early humans interbred with Denisovans in events that significantly shaped our ...

Archaeologists in Tajikistan have discovered a rock-shelter that may have been a migration site for Neanderthals, Denisovans, ...

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

It appears modern-day promiscuity can be traced back to our early ancestors, as scientists from Trinity College in Dublin have discovered that some of the genes from a hominin group known as the ...

From the formation of inner ear bones to the rise of hair to cover our bodies, these developments made us distinct from other ...

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