When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A series of lower jaws from North Africa demonstrates variation among hominin fossils. The jaw on ...

Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin and shows foot features that are transitioning from vertical climbing to bipedal walking. While Ardi has the primitive grasping big toe of the ...

Homo heidelbergensis is presented as a key link between earlier Homo species and later populations, potentially representing the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans. Fossils ...

One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010, a groundbreaking genetic analysis revealed that east Asia was once home to a previously unknown group of enigmatic ...

Researchers theorize that the last common ancestor of modern humans and two of our extinct human cousins—Neanderthals and Denisovans—existed about 765,000 to 550,000 years ago. Where these ancestors ...

It’s a common mistake to think we came directly from the monkeys or chimps you see at the zoo today, but the actual story of our origins is more about a complex family tree than a straight line. We ...

A new study examining the muscular system of bonobos provides firsthand evidence that the rare great ape species may be more closely linked, anatomically, to human ancestors than common chimpanzees.

A new study finds chimpanzees drum against tree roots with rhythm, suggesting they share an evolutionary trait with humans passed down by a last common ancestor. DaFranzos via Pixabay Wild chimpanzees ...