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.

Deep in the limestone caves of southern China lies a discovery that challenged everything we thought we knew about human ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of ...

A recent paper in The Quarterly Review of Biology explores how these technologies might influence human evolution. In “How Might Artificial Intelligence Influence Human Evolution?” author Rob Brooks ...

A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating ...

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 ...

Paleolithic cuisine was anything but lean and green, according to a study on the diets of our Pleistocene ancestors.

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 ...

What do the world’s fastest creatures on land, sea and air all have in common? My colleagues and I have taken a key step ...

Homo erectus reconstruction that also adds to evidence that humans ... He explains that our ability to speak was an important step in our evolution. Understanding when language began is key to ...