Ancient artifacts such as stone tools and fossils, including ancient human skulls and teeth, provide crucial information for understanding the origins of modern humans. The archaeological record ...

Clay Tablet Reveals Ancient Mesopotamians Had a Rough Understanding of Anatomy, ‘They Felt Anger in Their Feet and Love in ...

To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans, as well as to the anatomy of "knuckle-walking" primates like ...

A new study has shed light on the running abilities of Australopithecus afarensis, our 3.2-million-year-old ancestor famously ...

"Within the past 50,000 years most of the variation that is seen among human populations evolved," said researcher Jason ...

Two studies came to a similar conclusion, highlighting a single, sustained event of mixing DNA. The findings could impact our ...

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 ...

Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths and the weaknesses of a body plan inherited from distant ancestors, giving us an efficient and graceful gait and a range of painful problems from ...

Study provides first evidence of different bipedalism styles on same footprint surface, attributed to both species.

"We see modern humans as a big story of success ... living hundreds of thousands of years ago and observing how their anatomy subtly changed over time. The ancient remains have been sparse ...

Changes from an ape-like anatomy are discernible in hominoid fossils from the late Miocene in Africa. Some hominoid species from this period exhibit traits that are typical of humans but are not ...