In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

The footprints are the first clear evidence that the two hominin species shared a habitat, raising questions about whether ...

Newly discovered fossil footprints indicate two different ancient human relatives walked upright around a muddy lake in Kenya ...

Engels applied the logic of materialist dialectics to the problem of human evolution with important, though rarely ...

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...

Lucy has and continues to play a fundamental role in our understanding of our ancient ancestors and how we evolved.

One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of ...

A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ...

An excavation team uncovered four sets of footprints preserved in the mud at the Turkana Basin, a site that has led to ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...