Over 36 years since its discovery in Ethiopia’s Afar Depression, the 3.2 million year old skeleton of Lucy is still the most famous in all of paleoanthropology.Older fossil humans have been found, as ...

Lucy and other members of the early hominid species Australopithecus afarensis probably were similar to humans in the size difference between males and females, according to researchers from Penn ...

New hominid teeth have been found in Germany. How likely are they to be real Australopithecines or Ardipithecines, and what is their real significance? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain ...

Science, founded by Thomas A. Edison in 1880 and published by AAAS, today ranks as the world's largest circulation general science journal. Published 51 times a year, Science is renowned for its ...

Update: Not only have we found a long-lost cousin, but it now appears that the skull of newly unveiled Australopithecus sediba contains a print of its brain. The skull of the young male ...

There's a new storm in the ranks of anthropologists who try to understand the long and puzzling history of human evolution by studying fossil evidence from millions of years ago. A Utah biologist and ...

This story was updated at 3:14 p.m. ET. A mysterious ancient relative of humanity known as Little Foot apparently roamed the Earth at about the same time as the famed Lucy, suggesting the ancestors of ...

Anthropologists define a ‘grade shift’ when a species shares structural and/or behavioral characteristics different from their ancestors. They also agree that the appearance of Homo erectus about 2 ...

Analysis of isotopes in the teeth of otters and mongooses from Africa have led one paleontologist to suggest that some of humanity’s ancient kin shared those modern animals’ preference for shelled ...

Humans evolved from ape-like ancestors because they needed to run long distances – perhaps to hunt animals or scavenge carcasses on Africa's vast savannah – and the ability to run shaped our anatomy, ...