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

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

A team of international scientists has discovered new fossils at a field site in Africa that indicate Australopithecus, and the oldest specimens of Homo, coexisted at the same place in Africa at the ...

It helped us reach our “prime.” The Progression of Man apparently wasn’t as gradual as once thought. UK researchers found ...

A boy and his father were out walking around north of Johannesburg, South Africa. Luckily, the father was a paleoanthropologist and he knew the remains found by his son could be a major archeological ...

The History of Almost Everything By Chip Colwell, Translated by Kim Byung-hwa, Buki, 456 pages, 27,000 Korean won 300,000 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift ...

The biggest jump in body size among our ancestors happened around 2 to 2.5 million years ago, with the appearance of Homo rudolfensis or Homo ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...