For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

From ancient apes to modern humans, this video breaks down the entire evolutionary timeline. Learn how hominids split from other great apes, when bipedalism began, and how species like Homo habilis, ...

John 21:25 “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be ...

A newly reconstructed 1-million-year-old Chinese skull may hold surprising insights into human evolution, challenging long-held theories.

New research suggests that Homo floresiensis’ short stature is probably the result of a type of dwarfism that occurs in ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long period of childhood.

The Nobel Prize winner in Medicine is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage ...

Jane Goodall, the world’s most famous primatologist, died Wednesday at the age of 91, the Jane Goodall Institute announced on ...

Early humans were not the feared masters of the savanna long imagined. On the contrary, some still served as meals for big ...

Multiple "Homo" lineages existed during the Middle Pleistocene period, each of which had diverse physical forms, according to ...

The first modern men / Bernard Vandermeersch -- Image of the human fossil brain : endocranial casts and meningeal vessels in young and adult subjects / Roger Saban -- Toward a synthetic theory of ...