For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

A recent study proposes a new paradigm for understanding the role of carrion in the subsistence of human populations ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

Ancient ankle bones of Ardipithecus ramidus reveal how early humans combined climbing and upright walking, reshaping the ...

Fossilized human teeth spanning two million years of evolution had shockingly high contents of lead, which may have been the ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Learn how early humans evolved at a much faster rate than other apes, adapting larger brains as they developed new ways to socialize.

Foreword / J. Francis Thackeray -- 1. African genesis : an evolving paradigm / Sally C. Reynolds ; 2. Academic genealogy / Peter S. Ungar and Phillip V. Tobias -- pt. 1. In search of origins : ...

Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the ...

The study of human evolution and comparative anatomy bridges palaeontology, biomechanics and evolutionary biology to elucidate the origins of our unique anatomy. Recent analyses have shed new light on ...