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 ...

Scientists have found a series of stone tools on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island they say may be evidence of humans living 1.5 ...

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 ...

Neanderthals still shared the Earth with our ancestors. Recent discoveries are challenging our linear view of human evolution ...

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 ...

Our ancestors' teeth tell an astonishing story of survival and adaptation. A recent study reveals how their diet influenced the evolution of their dentition. Around 3.8 million years ago, ...

“These were artefacts made by ancient humans who lived on the earth long before the evolution of our species, Homo Sapiens,” said Adam Brumm, lead archaeologist from Griffith University in Queens­land ...

The fossils, attributed to an unknown australopithecus that lived in present-day Ethiopia 2.6 million years ago, have met ...

Some scientists believe humans became bipedal to adapt to climate change, but our closest primate ancestors complicate that ...

This find transformed our understanding of human evolution in Europe, revealing a group of hominids that lived before both Neanderthals and modern humans. International recognition soon followed.

Adaptations to arboreal, rather than terrestrial, living may have been key in shaping the early evolution of the human lineage.” ...