The names scientists give to humanity’s ancient relatives are more than labels. They encode a story about who counts as close kin and who sits on a separate branch of the family tree. Now a researcher ...

There will never be a single "missing link" that connects human beings to our ape ancestors. Instead, evidence for human evolution is found in DNA, artefacts, and fossils, which anthropologists use to ...

The latest fossil un-earthed from a human ancestral hot spot in Africa allows scientists to link together the most complete chain of human evolution so far. The 4.2 million-year-old fossil discovered ...

Australopithecus anamensis has been at the center of a number of scientific debates. This is a diary series in which we take a closer look at hominins, fossil ancestors of the human family.