The human family tree is looking more and more like an unruly bush. Paleontologists have now uncovered the teeth of two different ancient human lineages at the same site in northeastern Ethiopia. The ...

Our species is the last living member of the human family tree. But just 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals walked the Earth, and hundreds of thousands of years before then, our ancestors overlapped with ...

(Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same ...

(CN) — Researchers have made new discoveries about the earliest history of humanity’s family tree, thanks to a brand-new research technique and an 800,000-year-old tooth. In a study published ...

Paleoanthropologists define the first examples of the genus Homo based largely on their bigger ... fully land-based rather ...

Analysis of rare hominin infant fossils excavated in southern Africa reveals unexpected cranial features which add weight to the hypothesis that Paranthropus robustus is more closely related to the ...

A lower jaw found in Africa could mean that the Homo genus — the one that we ourselves belong to — evolved some 400,000 years earlier than previously assumed. The 2.8 million-year-old fossil is from a ...

For eight hours a day last summer, Juliet Brophy examined ancient teeth, jammed together with colleagues into a small room affectionately dubbed the “tooth booth” at the University of the ...

Fossil find sheds light on the transition to Homo genus from earlier hominids These new fossils, however, represent a hominid that appeared approximately one million years later than Lucy, and their ...

Paleoanthropologists have thought that Homo habilis was the first stone-tool maker and meat-eater in our genus. But new ...