After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

Australian-led study suggests iconic South African skeleton differs from known Australopithecus species, media reports - ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, ...

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add another name to our already crowded family tree. They introduced a population ...

Modern human beings are the ultimate apex species, exerting dominance over our environment in a way that no other animal ever ...