This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

Researchers believe a skull unearthed in 1990 suggests the emergence of the human species occurred 400,000 years earlier than previously believed The fossil was discovered in China’s Hubei Province ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...