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

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

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

At the nearby site La Polledrara di Cecanibbio, northwest of Rome, archeologists have discovered the remains of at least ...

From lush forests to dry savannas, Earth’s climate transformed over millions of years, forcing early hominins to adapt, ...

It also shows that the trophic position of some of the earliest representatives of the genus Homo was not different from ...

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

Imagine walking miles and miles across dangerous terrain frequented by sabertoothed cats just to find the right rock. Around 2.6 million years ago, a group of early hominins in East Africa started to ...

We already know that, at various points in our species' past, several hominin species were wandering around Africa. But now it turns out they may have been living very different lives. A team of ...

Human Evolution 1.5 million-year-old stone tools from mystery human relative discovered in Indonesia — they reached the region before our species even existed Human Evolution 2.6 million-year-old ...

April 23 (UPI) --Early hominins had adopted a human-like gait prior to the emergence of the Homo genus, new research suggests. After analyzing a series of 3.6-million-year-old hominin footprints, ...

READER QUESTION: We now know from evolutionary science that humanity has existed in some form or another for around 2 million years or more. Homo sapiens are comparatively new on the block. There were ...