Footprints from two hominin species found in Kenya suggest they lived and interacted together over a million years ago. Over ...

For millions of years, eastern Africa was a crucible of human evolution, hosting a complex interplay of species. Fossilized ...

A fossil site of footprints in Kenya reveal a run-in of earlier hominins more than a million years before the rise of Homo ...

Study provides first evidence of different bipedalism styles on same footprint surface, attributed to both species.

What led humans on the unique path of cultural development? And can we do anything useful with newly reconstructed histories ...

A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ...

The researchers believe the footprints were made within hours of each other on the shores of an ancient lake in present-day ...

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

A generation ago, it would have been axiomatic that the emergence of tools and Homo were linked, and that they signalled a major step forward – the development of early human culture ... One hominin – ...

Although Lucy is a comprehensive specimen, the most complete individual ever found is that of Nariokotome Boy, a Homo erectus who lived about 1.5 million years ago. Also called Turkana Boy ...

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

Human children pair fast growth of a large brain with slow body growth. Ancient Homo fossil teeth reveal that hominin dental growth rates began to slow before there was a major increase in brain ...