Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

Paranthropus robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal new insights into their diet, social structure, and survival 2 ...

The discovery of new fossils in Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, has reshaped our understanding of Paranthropus robustus, an ...

Despite being conducted outside Africa and focusing on a primate far from the evolutionary lineage of Homo sapiens, the study ...

These have produced numerous hominid and animal fossils, including fragments of Australopithecus. The deposits of human vertebrae fauna, and paleo-environmental evolution, shed light on the earliest ...

This often noisy exercise in projection is wholly dismissive, for example, of concerns that the man, as the conservative commentator Matthew Parris put it in The Times, is “a slob, a cheat, a ...

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

"The South African Fossil Ape-Men : The Australopithecinæ" (1946).