Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

The discovery will provide more insight into human evolution and ... They noticed fossils on the surface and were excavating to try and find the source. While cleaning the top layer of a bed ...

Ancient human fossils discovered in a cave in eastern China have traits of both primitive and modern humans – a finding that could potentially challenge the “out of Africa” theory of human ...

In 1974, Lucy showed that human ancestors were up and walking around long before the earliest stone tools were made or brains got bigger, and subsequent fossil finds of much earlier bipedal ...

For decades, common scientific knowledge has held that homo sapiens—human beings as we know them today—evolved in Africa some 200,000 years ago. But a new fossil discovery in another part of ...

is in a region already so famous for its ancient human fossils that it is often referred to as the Cradle of Humankind. Much of that reputation rests on finds from the early 1900s, back when South ...

But Lucy and other fossil finds reveal that more than 3 million years ago, a relatively small-brained, ape-faced human ancestor walked steadily on two feet. To get a picture of how Lucy's species ...

Nov. 27, 2024 — Brain size increased gradually within each ancient human species rather than through sudden leaps between ... The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long ...

Typically, skeletal fossils offer primary evidence of human evolution, but fossil footprints help fill in gaps about the evolution of human anatomy and movement. “With these kinds of data, we can see ...

The oldest human fossils found outside of Africa ... A few 20th century fossil and artifact finds in Israel showed that anatomically modern humans were in the region up to 115,000 years ago.

"Although we started this project several years ago, we did not expect being able to propose a new hominin (human ancestor) species and then to be able to organize the hominin fossils from Asia ...

The implications are breathtaking; if we could travel back far enough in time, we would find common ancestors ... (Figure 1). The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate ...