The names scientists give to humanity’s ancient relatives are more than labels. They encode a story about who counts as close kin and who sits on a separate branch of the family tree. Now a researcher ...

(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 struggled to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Monash University research argues our Paranthropus (pictured) and Australopithecus ancestors who lived up to 5 million years ...

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"I imagine there might be some though who will be skeptical -- as is always the case." Their argument centers on a timeline: The oldest known Homo fossil, a jawbone, is dated at 2.8 million years old, ...

The recovery of new lumbar vertebrae from the lower back of a single individual of the human relative, Australopithecus sediba, and portions of other vertebrae of the same female from Malapa, South ...