Here come the neighbors, Lucy. Scientists have discovered 3.5-million- to 3.3-million-year-old fossils possibly from a new species in the human evolutionary family. The species lived in what’s now ...

Understanding this crucial point in human history has focused on the Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia where ...

(CN) – The site of the largest known hominid fossil collection has once again provided clues about the newfound human relative, Homo naledi. After probing deeper into the South African cave system ...

Purdue's Darryl Granger and Marc Caffee have determined the age of a fossilized skeleton thought to be an Australopithecus – a genus of African hominids from which humanity is thought to have ...

Two years ago, nine-year-old Matthew Berger accompanied his dad, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, to an archeological excavation site in South Africa. Running after his dog, he noticed an ...

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Lucy’s kind had small, chimplike brains that, nevertheless, grew at a slow, humanlike pace. This discovery, reported April 1 in Science Advances, shows for the first time that prolonged brain growth ...

A team of paleontologists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with colleagues from Xi'an Jiaotong University, the University of York, the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A newly documented species, called Australopithecus sediba, was an upright walker that shared many physical traits with the earliest known Homo species -- and its introduction into the fossil record ...

In 2003, when fossil remains were uncovered in Liang Bua Cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, the discoverers dubbed the remains Homo floresiensis, a new hominid species. But in a new study, ...