Most people have heard of at least one early species closely related to modern humans: the humble Neanderthal, a widespread ...

Next, check out the jawbone discovered by scientists that is the oldest human fossil ever found. Then take a look at “Little Foot,” the 3.7 million-year-old hominid skeleton.

Millions of years ago, much of the region was lush woodland. Tim White / Brill Atlanta Hunting for hominid fossils in Ethiopia, researchers "collect every piece of bone, every piece of wood ...

If there was any lingering question about the early manifestation of bipedality in human evolutionary history, it has been erased by recent fossil discoveries: a 4.4-million-year-old hominid from ...

How do we know when they lived? Estimating the age of hominid fossils is usually a painstaking, two-part process, involving both "absolute" and "relative" dating. "Absolute" dating means finding a ...

Scientists have identified at least four hominid species—in addition to our own, Homo sapiens—that lived in this region at various times over the past 3.5 million years. “Fossils from South ...

Excavations here from 1936 to 1941 led to the discovery of the first hominid fossil at this site. Later, 50 fossils of Meganthropus palaeo and Pithecanthropus erectus/Homo erectus were found - half of ...

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made ...

Leakey also found her first hominid fossil at age five, becoming the youngest person to make such a discovery. The site of their research — the shoreline of Lake Turkana in the north of Kenya ...

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