Human evolution is explained through branching lineages rather than a simple linear progression. Fossils, genetics, and ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with a newly identified species of Australopithecus nearly three million years ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...

A seven-million-year-old skull found in Chad sits at the center of a long argument about human origins. The species, ...