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The bones they found in the sand were a clue that something more was buried beneath the surface. When a team of excavators in ...

An international team of researchers said Thursday that they had found two sets of hominin footprints that were made about ...

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

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

They found that just like humans, the apes’ attention moved back and forth between agent and patient, which implies that they ...

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This Southeast Asian island, home to some of the world’s strangest and most iconic creatures, is a dream destination for a ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

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