Biological anthropology is the sub-discipline of anthropology that studies human evolution and variation. Specific emphasis is on mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at ...

Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes ...

Study of ancient footprints first ever to show that early ancestors coexisted in shared space PITTSBURGH, Pa. — In the arid ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

John G. Fleagle, The Quarterly Review of Biology "In all, this is an essential purchase for any anthropology library." The Times Higher Education Supplement "If (whether student or professional) ...

wide-ranging and thought-provoking …' PaleoAnthropology 'Primate and Human Evolution contains great food for thought, but great thought is only the first and easiest step toward great science. As many ...

Anthropology considers how people's behaviors change over ... for solving the increasingly complex environmental challenges that we face. is the study of human evolution including comparisons of DNA ...