Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

The skeleton was discovered in 1994 in the Ethiopian Desert and belonged to the species Ardipithecus ramidus. Further investigation revealed that Ardi could walk upright like humans, but had ape-like ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...

This very lifestyle, of standing and walking on two legs unlike some of our primate predecessors, may have been key to supercharging the survival and reproductive advantage of our ancestral species.

The findings of this study suggest that the first humans may have originated from apes that were accustomed to living in two ...

Human flexibility in shoulders and elbows originated from ancient apes' need for safe tree descent. A new study reveals ...