New evidence suggests that certain early human ancestors rarely consumed meat, adding new information to the timeline of ...

Other fossils discovered with A ... boisei walked upright. Homo habilis, which actually means "handy man," is apparently the first species to make and use primitive stone tools.

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

The work marks an important advance in researchers' ability to reconstruct ancient diets, because it involved developing a new method to look inside tooth enamel for evidence of eating ... For example ...

It's long been thought our species was unique in its ability to adapt to harsh climates like bone-dry deserts or thick-set rainforests.

Let's explore the evidence for this dramatic shift using ... Scientists began to recognize these butchery marks on Early Stone Age fossil assemblages in the 1980s (e.g., Bunn 1981; Potts & Shipman ...

fossil evidence suggests these traits didn't arise as a single package Earth’s astronomical cycles suggests multiple species of Homo overlapped Traits said to have developed later have been ...

The earliest indisputable fossil evidence of hominins ... Likewise, the earliest Homo erectus, according to current evidence, was present in South Africa and Ethiopia 2 million years ago, which ...