Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

A child's skull discovered in a South African quarry in 1924 changed human history. Named the Taung Child, this fossil proved ...

Learn how archaeologists are using ancient charcoal deposits to understand what life was like for ancient humans 800,000 ...

Members of the Atapuerca Research Team from the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES), the Centro ...

Neanderthals had a PR disaster in the century after their discovery in 1856. Up until fairly recently, they were dismissed as ...

CENIEH takes part in a study that places the arrival of North African–origin Acheulean technology in the Iberian Peninsula at ...

The terms hominid and hominin are often used interchangeably, but they do not mean the same thing. Hominids include all great ...

So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to ...

We’re in the Turkana Basin in Northern Kenya, a part of the world responsible for so many hominin fossil finds that it’s ...

"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “The Azmaka hominin represents a candidate for the ancestral form of positional behavior from which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Until now, modern hominoids—humans, human ancestors, and apes—were thought to have diverged from monkeys in East Africa. The ...