A new study reveals that modern humans, Neanderthals, and other relatives evolved larger brains through gradual changes ...

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

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

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

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

More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

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

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

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

A study published in the journal Evolution and Human Behaviour has uncovered fascinating insights into gender roles and ...

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

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