Hominins at the site exhibited meticulous planning and efficiency in their manufacturing and resource management strategies.

Modern chimpanzees select rock tools in similar ways to Oldowan hominins, early humans who used stone tools that date back to ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

The Many Humans of the Globe As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with ...

The Kalambo Falls finds add a new dimension. They show that some early hominins understood how to shape and join logs. This changes what we know about their abilities and creativity. “This find has ...

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

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 ...

Led by Professor Josep M. Potau from the University of Barcelona, the research suggests that early hominins, like Australopithecu... The study detailing the discovery has been published in the journal ...

A study by the Jane Goodall Institute Spain and the University of Barcelona shows that chimpanzees remember the exact ...

But this is the first time demonstrating it. I think that’s really huge.” Reference: “Footprint evidence for locomotor diversity and shared habitats among early Pleistocene hominins” by Kevin G.

Credit: The Duckworth Laboratory, University of Cambridge Analyzing the evolutionary patterns of early hominins, the researchers found a familiar cycle. First, species emerge rapidly when ...

The discovery of Lucy, or “Dinknesh” as the remains are locally known, changed not just Johanson’s career but it also shed new light on how humans evolved and changed over time, according to Johanson, ...