Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

Two small genetic changes reshaped the human pelvis, setting our early ancestors on the path to upright walking, scientists say.

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

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

The role of megafaunal exploitation in early human evolution remains debated. Occasional use of large carcasses by early hominins has been considered by some as opportunistic, possibly a fallback ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say.

Researchers analysed 2 million-year-old Paranthropus robustus teeth from South Africa, uncovering ancient proteins that ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

In a recently published, PNAS study, professor Andreas Neider and his team found that crows and rhesus macaques take mental ...