Our species is the last living member of the human family tree. But just 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals walked the Earth, and hundreds of thousands of years before then, our ancestors overlapped with ...

The names scientists give to humanity’s ancient relatives are more than labels. They encode a story about who counts as close kin and who sits on a separate branch of the family tree. Now a researcher ...

Paranthropus boisei cranium, one of the three genera the proposal would fold into an expanded Homo. Photo by Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 FR, via Wikimedia Commons. Three genus names do nearly all the work in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have uncovered evidence of two previously unknown ancestral lineages by working backward from DNA in living people. - ...

The unveiling of the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains has painted an excitingly chaotic picture of what Earth was like 300,000 years ago — bustling with hominin species that included a very early ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...