Where on earth did we humans come from?Why do humans walk on two legs, speak languages, build civilizations, and even try to ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

Natural selection has long been considered the driving force behind human evolution. But a landmark study of 87 fossil skulls spanning the past two million years suggests the story is far more complex ...

Lucy was not a missing link in the tidy sense. Her bones show that the traits we call human arrived in pieces, not in one dramatic evolutionary leap. Lucy is often introduced as if she were a creature ...

The familiar claim about humans evolving from apes leaves out an important part of the story. Fossils and DNA reveal a much ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially ...

Column No. 158, Drawing the 'Material Universe' and the 'Spiritual Universe' on a Single Sheet of PaperThe Origin of the ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral population in Africa. By analyzing genetic data from diverse modern African ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday. The ...

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...