A widely popular idea in psychology and evolutionary science suggests that the distinctive look of the human eye—particularly ...

Wu and Bae argue this misses the point. These fossils, they say, belong to a distinct group with its own role in the human family tree. The Juluren lived between 300,000 and 50,000 years ago.

In Tanzania’s Issa Valley, the landscape is a mix of thick forest near rivers and open woodlands. During the dry season, ...

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He later directed excavations of a 4.4-million-year-old partial hominid skeleton known as Ardi that also shook up the human family tree (SN: 12/31/09).

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever documented, scientists say.

When Lucy was discovered 50 years ago, she was the oldest, most complete early member of the human family that had ever been found, with 47 bones representing 40 percent of the skeleton.