This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Mongrel models and seductive scenarios of human evolution -- Terminology, morphology, genes, and lots of fossils : Apes in space ; Apes in time ; Taproot and branches of our family tree -- Positional ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

A new fossil analysis supports the idea a human ancestor was walking upright far earlier than previously thought.

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of our ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin ...

If you’ve ever wondered why humans can safely enjoy a glass of wine or a cold beer, the answer may lie deep in our ape ancestry. A groundbreaking study published today in the journal BioScience ...

"This book is about the irreducibility of human evolution to purely biological properties and processes, for human evolution has incorporated the emergence of social relations and cultural histories ...

Anthropologists have uncovered evidence of an ancient ape species that roamed Africa on two feet seven million years ago, ...

Certain images continue to stand the test of time within the wilds of cinematic pop culture. From Dorothy wandering down Oz’s gleaming Yellow Brick Road to Marion Crane’s shocking death halfway ...