Far up in the Ethiopian highlands, the resounding strike of stone against stone was probably a familiar one two million years ago. Ancient hominids chipped away to create simple tools: hammerstones ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Our earliest ancestors probably behaved in a much more "human" way than most scientists have previously thought, according to a recent study that looked at early hominid fossils from ...

Nearly 3 million years ago, hominids employed stone tool kits to butcher hippos and pound plants along what’s now the shores of Kenya’s Lake Victoria, researchers say. Evidence of those food ...

Pre-human artifacts: William & Mary archaeologist Neil Norman discusses a set of remarkably ancient stone tools that he brought back from a site on the Horn of Africa. Photo by Stephen Salpukas by ...

Accurate soft tissue measurements are critical when making reconstructions of human ancestors, a new study has found. Accurate soft tissue measurements are critical when making reconstructions of ...

Groove patterns on the surface of modern chimpanzee brains throw a monkey wrench into proposals that some ancient southern African hominids evolved humanlike brain characteristics, a new study ...

The next time a creationist spouts some nonsense about how the lack of a fossil record undermines the theory of evolution, direct them to the hominid family tree. If you haven't read much about human ...

Researchers report potential explanations for the evolution of social behavior and intelligence in humans. Humans are characterized by remarkable demographic success compared with our nearest ...

June 4 (UPI) --To tell the full story of human evolution, researchers need to know what our earliest relatives looked like. Unfortunately, soft tissue reconstruction is quite difficult. In a new study ...