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Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been ...

The world-famous pre-human fossil known as "Lucy" is going on display in Europe for the first time as part of a Prague ...

The research, published in Communications Biology, provides the first direct evidence that manual dexterity and brain ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

The teeth also confirm that there were at least four types of hominins throughout East Africa at the time, with a fifth ...

New research reveals that primates with longer thumbs tend to have larger brains, suggesting that manual dexterity and brain ...

The first humans : origin and early evolution of the genus Homo : contributions from the third Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium and Workshop, October 3-October 7, 2006 / edited by Frederick E.