The traditional labels Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus may no longer match the tangled relationships revealed by the ...

The names scientists give to humanity’s ancient relatives are more than labels. They encode a story about who counts as close ...

The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be ...

Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, ...

A new study could reshape human evolution by placing Australopithecus and Paranthropus within an expanded genus Homo.

Human evolution involved repeated branching rather than one species simply transforming into the next. Earlier primates ...

Jan 16 (Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have ...

Fossils found at the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa reveal nearly four million years of hominin and environmental evolution. The Sterkfontein Cave has become famous for the hundreds of ...

The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of Australopithecus afarensis, the early human ancestor famously represented by ...

A new research conducted by two paleontologists at the University of Malaga has just revealed that human evolution uniquely combines an increase in brain size with the acquisition of an increasingly ...