When paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovered the 1.8 million-year-old Homo habilis in 1964, it was thought to be our first human ancestor. Because of its close proximity to stone tools, Homo ...

Has climate change made us who we are today? A broken and fossilized jawbone found poking up amid sediment in an East African hill is rewriting a significant chapter of human evolution — and ...

What We Know About Homo Habilis 'Homo habilis' lived at least 2 million years ago in parts of Africa. Learn why experts still aren't sure if this was the first ancient human to exist.

"The analyses show that on the family tree, Homo floresiensis was likely a sister species of Homo habilis. It means these two shared a common ancestor," Dr Argue said.

And exactly how is this Homo naledi character related to me? A team of scientists discovered this new species of human relative in fossils retrieved from a cave near Johannesburg, South Africa.

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.

The discovery of a new human ancestor could fundamentally change our understanding of how we evolved. Homo naledi, found in a remote cave chamber in South Africa, has a combination of features ...

Researchers have revealed new details about the brain, pelvis, hands and feet of Australopithecus sediba, a primitive hominin that existed around the same time early Homo species first began to ...

In a discovery that rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have unearthed extraordinarily rare fossils on the Indonesian island of Flores, including an adult limb bone so tiny it ...