The first two skeletons removed from the pit were a young ... is in a region already so famous for its ancient human fossils that it is often referred to as the Cradle of Humankind.

Bones from the most complete of four individuals represented by the new finds cover about 15 percent of that creature’s skeleton ... preceded the great ape/human split and likely started ...

The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos sometime around 6 million years ago (mya). We begin this ...

Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million ... but possessed a relatively small ape-like skull. Lucy's foot bones show that she had similar feet to modern humans ...