The inhabitants probably hadn’t mastered fire-making, but researchers say they may have moved and maintained flames from a ...

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Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil, still reshapes how scientists explain human evolution nearly 50 years ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

The study of human origins provides a fundamental narrative for our biological and cultural evolution. By combining fossil evidence with archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data, we can trace the ...

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

The deeper we explore humanity’s past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most powerful political myths of the ...

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In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an exciting find hits the headlines, paleoanthropology and its related fields ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...