The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.

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

Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.

Researchers agreed she was from a new species of human ... erectus—popularly nicknamed “Java Man.” Dubois believed his discovery could be the so-called “missing link” in evolution ...

"And so the big story here … is that cooking began about 1.9 million years ago with the origin of the species that most looks like us in human evolution, Homo erectus," Wrangham said.

But after two decades of research, and no small amount of controversy, we can be sure that Homo floresiensis wasn’t really anything close to a short human with big feet and a penchant for seed ...

may have triggered the evolution of a large brain like that of modern humans, rather than the reverse. Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo ...

Dr. Simpson’s primary research addresses exploring early human evolution between 6.5 and 1.0 Ma ago. Since 1992, Dr. Simpson has been conducting paleontological field research in the Afar region of ...