Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big ...

Romania is making strides in the archaeological world after new evidence confirmed the presence of ancient hominins in the ...

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 ...

The only known hominid fossils of that age in that location are those of Lucy and her kind, the small-brained but upright-walking hominids classified as Australopithecus afarensis. Some analysts ...

fossil hunters in Kenya have been excavating a treasure trove of hominid fossils, including a few species found nowhere else Homo helmei is one of several obscure species of our own genus that are ...

In confirming the sex of one of the most iconic hominid fossils, researchers are helping explain the great physical diversity in Australopithecus africanus A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot shows ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the 700,000-year-old fossils of an ancient hominid ancestor of homo floresiensis - a human relative often known as the Hobbits. The researchers uncovered the ...

This module incorporates lectures and practical demonstration (laboratory) sessions to explore the application of anatomical principles to the comparison and interpretation of the hominid and primate ...