At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a ...

Once they had thought the development of a large brain or the making and use of stone tools was the pivotal early evolutionary innovation setting human ancestors, the hominids, apart from the apes.

As the African landscape shifted gradually from dense forests toward large patches of savannah, early hominids found their food supplies waning, leading them to descend from the trees and become ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

Journal of Archaeological Science 20, 365-398 (1993). Domínguez-Rodrigo, M. Meat-eating by early hominids at the FLK 22 Zinjanthropus site, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): an experimental approach ...

researchers are helping explain the great physical diversity in Australopithecus africanus A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot shows that early hominids had more than one way of walking around A ...

It’s possible, though, that Danuvius independently evolved a form of upright walking on tree branches that had nothing to do with the appearance of a two-legged gait in hominids, says DeSilva ...