A newly published study has found that males of some of our earliest known ancestors were significantly larger than females.

Australopithecus afarensis (left), Homo rudolfensis (center), and Homo ergaster (right) evolved different dental structures to suit their shifting diets.

Anthropologist Adam Gordon used multivariate resampling on fragmentary fossils to uncover size gaps that hint at intense male competition in early hominids.

New research reveals extreme size differences between male and female early human ancestors.

When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment at the Hadar fossil site in Ethiopia in 1974, he knew it ...

As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop ...

Learn how the hominins’ consumption of grasses led to changes in their teeth around 700,000 years later.

The National Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Human Origins vastly distorts the scientific evidence on human evolution, ...

Around 2.3 million years ago, ancient human species such as Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectus suddenly changed their diets.