A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a ...

In the mountains of Atapuerca, Spain, fragments of a 1.4-million-year-old skull have been discovered. These bones, nicknamed ...

Exhibiting some chimp-like characteristics, A. anamensis' jaws are more primitive than those of later hominids. And yet, its humerus (an arm bone) is quite human-like. Characteristics of its tibia ...

As early hominids left the comfort of the forest to ... that it was bipedalism that brought forth our ability to use these primitive devices, others believe the reverse—that the advent of ...