The human evolutionary tree can be complicated—but understanding where hominids end and hominins begin reveals how we fit ...

Researchers from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) and the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen have retrieved the oldest molecular evidence on the evolution of hominids ...

Hominid teeth hold clues to our evolutionary history. Learn how fossilized teeth reshape our understanding of human origins and the complexity of our family tree. And teeth--particularly those of ...

Prehistoric relatives of humans may have buried their dead and written symbols on cave walls — long before the oldest known human burials. That’s according to new findings presented at a conference at ...

Dazzling new scientific techniques are allowing anthropologists to track the movements and menus of extinct hominids through the seasons and years as they ate their way across the African landscape, ...

Eighteen-thousand years after it slumped over dead in a Southeast Asian cave, what is believed to be a tiny hominid has become the center of a bitter tug-of-war between the scholars responsible for ...

The next time a creationist spouts some nonsense about how the lack of a fossil record undermines the theory of evolution, direct them to the hominid family tree. If you haven't read much about human ...

Groove patterns on the surface of modern chimpanzee brains throw a monkey wrench into proposals that some ancient southern African hominids evolved humanlike brain characteristics, a new study ...

Researchers report potential explanations for the evolution of social behavior and intelligence in humans. Humans are characterized by remarkable demographic success compared with our nearest ...

As the African landscape shifted gradually from dense forests toward large patches of savannah, early hominids found their food supplies waning, leading them to descend from the trees and become ...

CRADLE OF HUMANKIND, South Africa — Matthew Berger, 9, dashed after his dog Tau into the high grass here one morning in 2008, tripped over a log and stumbled onto a major archaeological discovery.