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 ...

Living hominoids (apes) are united by features related to their unusual locomotion, but few such traits are found in the earliest fossil forms. Which adaptations were likely present in the ...

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 ...

"And it is especially significant in demonstrating that micromorphology can be recovered from truly ancient hominid fossils without having to resort to destructive techniques. That is truly an ...

Paleoartist John Gurche utilized fossils and genetic data from the extinct species to recreate plastic replicas of remains.

“The facial reconstructions of the Yunxian Man skull fossils brought together paleoanthropologists, forensic experts, 3D reconstruction specialists, and Paleolithic archaeologists,” Feng Xiaobo, a ...

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features than any other human ancestor. Ardipithecus ramidus may have walked upright. Other fossils discovered with A.

where some of paleoanthropology's most iconic fossils have been found The history of anthropology is littered with many now-defunct hominid species that no longer have a place on the human family ...