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

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

It was already pretty hot by the time Donald Johanson and his graduate student, Tom Gray, arrived at the site at Hadar, ...

A new study of ancient footprints is the first ever to show that our early ancestors coexisted in a shared space.

The thinking of early theorists was that our evolution was a coordinated, linear process. Our ancestors’ brains grew steadily ...

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

Evolution could alter or even eliminate some of the human traits we cherish most, changing forever what it means to be human.

Brain size increased gradually within each ancient human species rather than through sudden leaps between species.

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

While public discourse about artificial intelligence often gravitates toward dramatic scenarios – superintelligent machines ...

Millions of years ago, Lucy revolutionized our understanding of human evolution. Now, discover how her contemporaries add ...

It is a triumph that most of the 8 billion humans alive today are living relatively happily and, thanks to modern medicine, ...