A team of experts have found a tooth in Ethiopia which may rewrite our human family tree and forever alter our understanding of where we came from.

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

A recent study reveals we have a long-lost relative which hung out with our more famous apelike ancestors about three million years ago. It turns out the human family tree is more complicated than we ...

Fred Spoor is at the Centre for Human Evolution Research, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK, and in the Department of Human Origins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner A young chimpanzee looks on during an outing ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time itself. These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs, ...

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 ...