This video traces the human evolutionary tree from great apes to modern Homo sapiens, explaining the difference between ...

Kayleigh explains why her playlist title “Hominids” is not wrong: hominids include all great apes, while hominins include ...

Learn how fossils show human ancestors did not grow bigger in a straight line, but split into larger and smaller evolutionary ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...

The 2-Million-Year Jump: The primary transition to modern human body proportions was a sudden evolutionary leap 2 to 2.5 million years ago, driven by Homo erectus/ergaster and Homo rudolfensis, rather ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an international research team. The famous “Little Foot” skeleton from South Africa has ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a study in Nature Communications. It is the first time ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...