The latest fossil un-earthed from a human ancestral hot spot in Africa allows scientists to link together the most complete chain of human evolution so far. The 4.2 million-year-old fossil discovered ...

One of the most hotly debated issues in current human origins research focuses on how the 4.4 million-year-old African species Ardipithecus ramidus is related to the human lineage. New research ...

Before the genus Homo arose some 2 million years ago, eastern Africa was dominated by the Australopithecines - small brained, large-toothed bipeds that later earned the sobriquet "ape-men." But where ...

A new method to estimate sexual dimorphism in fossil species near the base of our family tree has been just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), through the joint ...

Human babies are, relative to the size of their mothers, about twice as big as chimpanzee babies. Our evolutionary growth spurt might have forced mothers to give up living in the trees, changing human ...

Fossils unearthed from an Ethiopian site not far from where the famous hominid Ardi’s partial skeleton was found suggest that her species was evolving different ways of walking upright more than 4 ...

New hominid teeth have been found in Germany. How likely are they to be real Australopithecines or Ardipithecines, and what is their real significance? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain ...

TEMPE, Ariz.—One of the most hotly debated issues in current human origins research focuses on how the 4.4 million-year-old African species Ardipithecus ramidus is related to the human lineage. "Ardi" ...