The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been ...

The pelvis plays a key role in the evolution of human upright locomotion and has changed radically over millions of years to ...

By Kermit Pattison / Harvard Staff WriterThe pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it ...

Lucy, scientifically known as Australopithecus afarensis, was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 and was hailed as the most complete skeleton of an early human ancestor at the time. Her discovery ...

Scientists have found a series of stone tools on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island they say may be evidence of humans living 1.5 million years ago on islands between Asia and Australia, the earliest known ...

Scientists have found a series of stone tools on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island they say may be evidence of humans living 1.5 million years ago on islands between Asia and Australia, the earliest known ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors ...

But the new study also suggests that the ilium underwent a second major change millions of years later, when humans evolved ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

Newly discovered teeth from Ethiopia reveal that early humans coexisted with a mysterious cousin species, reshaping our ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest example of interbreeding between the two groups.

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...