The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be ...

The traditional labels Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus may no longer match the tangled relationships revealed by the ...

The evolutionary tree that produced Homo sapiens might contain more knots than previously thought. Researchers have ...

Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The white skulls are the original, warped fossils, while the grey ones are digitally corrected replicas. (CREDIT: Fudan University ...

Reconstructing the origins of our species requires many kinds of evidence: fossil and archaeological evidence like bones and artefacts, but also molecular evidence such as ancient DNA, and data on ...

Learn how fossils show human ancestors did not grow bigger in a straight line, but split into larger and smaller evolutionary paths. Early relatives such as Australopithecus weighed around 88 pounds ...

A reanalysis of a one-million-year-old human skull found in China is challenging the established timeline of human evolution, and suggests a new branch of the human family tree, as well as a possible ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...