A Crash Course In Human Evolution With Anthropologist Chris Stringer' What was the timeline of human evolution? What was our last common ancestor? In this quickfire special, anthropologist and ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...