Employing software typically used to analyze the movements of human athletes, Ms. Joy saw that when chimpanzees climbed down a tree, they extended their shoulders and elbows above their heads to a ...

In separate presentations at scientific meetings, two anthropologists challenged the influential view that the human evolutionary family has contained as many as 20 different fossil species.

The story of human origins in Africa takes a twist with the description of a 6–7-million-year-old cranium from Chad. The discovery hints at the likely diversity of early hominids.

An analysis of the time at which the mutation arose during hominid evolution places it at about 2.4 million years ago, the period just before the evolution of the modern hominid cranial form.

View the video. In a macabre twist, the hominid evolutionary tree’s most famous fossil star, Lucy, tumbled to her death from high up in a tree, a controversial new study suggests.

Researchers Unearth A Hominid More Ancient Than Lucy Writing in the journal Science, researchers unveiled several studies of a 4.4-million-year-old fossil named Ardipithecus ramidus.

In a surprise twist, the evolution of human bipedalism might have nothing to do with learning to walk on land. By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira Published Dec 14, 2022 4:55 PM EST ...

The answer isn’t just semantic — it has to do with a revolution in the way evolutionary biologists perceive humans’ place in the tree of life. First, let’s be clear. Scientists today call ...

A 300,000 year-old fossilized skull discovered in China is proving to be an evolutionary puzzle.The specimen dating back to the late middle Pleistocene doesn’t look like other skulls that have ...