The names scientists give to humanity’s ancient relatives are more than labels. They encode a story about who counts as close ...

The traditional labels Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus may no longer match the tangled relationships revealed by the ...

The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be ...

Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, ...

A new study could reshape human evolution by placing Australopithecus and Paranthropus within an expanded genus Homo.

Uncover 25 shocking new discoveries about our ancient human relatives. From Dragon Man to new Homo sapiens origins, rethink ...

Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human ...

(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 ...

Scientists have finally come face-to-face with an ancient human ancestor called Little Foot. A new digital reconstruction reveals the visage of one of our oldest close human relatives, researchers ...

An analysis by Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany, on the manual capabilities of early hominins reveals that some Australopithecus species exhibited hand use similar to modern humans. In ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the "Burtele Foot" discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, finding they belonged to an enigmatic human ...