Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Based on soil and fossil examination of the upper layers, experts estimate the skeleton to be over 29,000 ... documenting the evolution of human societies over thousands of years," stated a ...

The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago, according to a new study Sarah Kuta ...