Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools.

University of California at Berkeley integrative biology professor Tim White, co-director of the project, called it "the most detailed snapshot we have of one of the earliest hominids and of what ...

Robert Siegel talks about the discovery in Chad with Donald Johanson, founder of the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, Calif. Dr. Johanson is the paleoanthropologist who discovered the 3.18 ...

Learn more about Ardipithecus ramidus and how their ankle bone paints a better picture of how our ancestors transitioned from ...

Evolution skeptics like to trot out the argument that if Darwin had been right, scientists would have discovered transitional fossils by now — creatures with a mix of features from earlier and later ...

A personal reflection recalls Jane Goodall’s quiet pragmatism, her deep bond with Gombe’s chimps and the scientific legacy of her skeletal collection.

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopians worried on Tuesday that the fragile bones of their world-famous skeleton -- the remains of a more than 3-million-year-old female hominid known as "Lucy" -- may not ...

"This book arises out of a joint meeting between the Centre for Ecology and Evolution (CEE), University College of London (UCL), and the Linnean Society, held in the meeting rooms of the Linnean ...

How humans came to be is one of science’s biggest questions. Tracing the timeline of our early evolution has never been easy. Fossil evidence is often incomplete, and dating methods present challenges ...

The first set of ancient hand fossils from an ape-like cousin of humans discovered in Kenya suggest a number of species were capable of making tools 1.5 million years ago.