Daily Mail has asked some of the leading evolution experts why, if humans evolved out of primates, do monkeys and apes still ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the ...

Explorations in the Dinaledi Subsystem of the Rising Star cave system have yielded some of the earliest evidence of a mortuary practice in hominins. Because the evidence is attributable to the ...

Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and place ...

Discovered on the shores of Lake Turkana, Kenyanthropus platyops shook the human family tree with its flat face and ancient age. Dated to 3.3 million years ago, this mysterious species may sit at the ...

With massive jaws and skulls built for power, Paranthropus boisei, robustus, and aethiopicus roamed Africa between 2.7 and 1 million years ago. Nicknamed the “Nutcracker Men,” these pre-humans lived ...

In the arid, fossil-rich sediment layers of Ethiopia’s northeastern Afar Region, a new window into human evolution has been revealed, challenging long-held assumptions about who walked the Earth ...

New research by UAlbany anthropologist Adam D. Gordon finds substantial sexual dimorphism in some of our early human ancestors. Credit: Ken Zirkel from the Museum of Natural History, used by ...

Collateral sensitivity, in which resistance to one antibiotic results in increased sensitivity to another antibiotic, is a strategy to reduce the evolution of antibiotic resistance. This Review ...