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This year was another full of discoveries in human evolution that help us understand our origins and our closest evolutionary cousins, both living and extinct. With stories of our living ape relatives ...

Footprints from Kenya's Turkana Basin show that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei lived simultaneously 1.5 million years ...

Sometime between 200,000 and 160,000 years ago, a group of early hominids who lived in what is now northern China were pursuing their next meal. They were skilled, organised hunters, having ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

The first discovery of tracks of early hominins in Kenya’s Lake Turkana region happened by chance in 1978. A team led by one of us (Behrensmeyer) and paleoecologist Léo Laporte was exploring ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists have introduced what they believe may be a new ancient human species. The Juluren, or "large ...

So what does the science say? In particular, what does the genetic evidence, which didn't exist back when many early hominins were first discovered, show? "Horses and donkeys can breed ...

Such changes would have required adjustments by early hominins, such as moving to more favorable places or changing their diet. The researchers also note that major changes to rivers like the ...

The bones they found in the sand were a clue that something more was buried beneath the surface. When a team of excavators in the Turkana Basin, an archaeological site in Kenya, dug deeper, they ...