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

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

"This age is very young for such primitive-looking Homo erectus fossils, and establishes that the species persisted on Java for well over one million years." Researchers think the collection of ...

erectus fossils from Asia, as well as early Homo evolution being ... ergaster as being the earliest true representative of the genus Homo. H. ergaster lived on the savannah in Africa, a unique ...

This accounts for the trove of fossils Berger is finding ... species enough like us to be called human—a member of the genus Homo. "This is where that story may have begun," he says, as he ...

An analysis of newly described Homo floresiensis fossils published Tuesday in the ... ago and were most likely a dwarfed version of Homo erectus, the first ancient human to leave Africa around ...

During their study, the scientists found that the teeth are much larger than other Homo erectus fossils found in Asia at the time when the new species is thought to have been alive. Instead they ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...