This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight ... fossils represent early members of the hominin lineage. The first human-like traits to ...

Timeline of hominin evolution and adaptation to various vegetation types. According to the new Science study, adaptation played a key role in the geographic expansion of our genus Homo.

A few hundred millennia later, about 60,000 to 70,000 years ago, the ancestors of modern non-Africans followed a similar path out of Africa and began interbreeding with these other hominin groups.

Facial remains found at an ancient cave in Spain belong to a primitive, archaic human who lived between 1.1 million to 1.4 ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens ... Starting in Africa with our early hominin relatives (who are more closely related to us than to chimpanzees), visitors will travel ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Meet your ancient relatives, trace the origins and evolution of our species, and explore what makes us human. Embark on a seven-million-year journey, from the first hominins to the last surviving ...

Let’s explore some common myths and misconceptions about evolution. The Chauvet Cave paintings are tens of thousands of years old and depict iconic animals that are now extinct. Even Werner ...

Paleontologists and other life scientists would do well to incorporate such Indigenous knowledge into continuing investigations of hominin evolution in Indonesia and elsewhere. For reasons I discuss ...