Evolution in action: Researchers have gained new insights into an extinct South African creature with an intriguing mix of human and apelike traits, and apparently an unusual way of walking.

Rewriting History This discovery joins recent revelations like Homo floresiensis (2003) and Homo luzonensis (2007), further complicating the human family tree with new evolutionary branches.

Genetic analysis of bones found in a cave in Spain has revealed the oldest human DNA discovered to date, from roughly 400,000 years ago, and this find adds a mysterious new branch to the human family ...

The discovery of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton, changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, and continues to capture human imagination.

Once, Earth was home to diverse human species, not just Homo sapiens. Fossil evidence reveals at least 21 early human species ...

A New Understanding of the Evolutionary Tree The traditional view of human evolution as a branching tree, with distinct populations evolving in isolation, is increasingly being challenged.

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as ...