Footprints from 1.5mil years ago made by two different species of human ancestors were made within hours on the same spot—a ...

By standing upright, hominids had less need of hair to keep heat out, except on the head and shoulders. The advantages of height might also explain the evolution over time of taller hominids.

The "huge" discovery near the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya proves the theory that some ancient ancestors were neighbors The ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

The research, which involves hominin fossils associated with Eastern Asia’s Late Quaternary, could be poised to reshape our ...

Scientists make their case for classifying an extinct group that lived in northern China until 120,000 years ago as a ...

Newly discovered footprints show that at least two hominid species were walking through the muddy submerged edge of a lake in Kenya's Turkana Basin at ...

He works on fossil primates and he is involved in understanding the origins of hominids and problems of paleoenvironments. He is also interested in the evolution of carnivores. George D. Koufos, ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

The discovery offers new insight into human evolution, particularly between the two early human species, known as hominins — a term for a subdivision of hominids. Hominins are all organisms within the ...

"We expected to find either dental development typical of early hominids, close to that of ... of information to be transmitted increased, evolution would have favored an increase in brain size ...

More than a million years ago, on a warm and vibrant African savanna near Lake Turkana in what is now Kenya, two entirely ...