Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

The article ‘ A new face for ‘Little Foot’, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton to date ’ by Amélie Beaudet and Dominic Stratford was originally published on The Conversation and has been ...

An international team of researchers has presented this week the analysis of a fossil discovered in Bulgaria that could ...

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...

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Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

The researchers also found that Neanderthals had far more human DNA on their X chromosomes than expected. This confirms the ...

Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

In a paper in Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, researchers argue that a 7.2-million-year-old femur from the Azmaka site preserves a blend of traits consistent with an early, transitional ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on ...