Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

The fossil remains of the unique hominid were found in Ethiopia in 1974, traveled around the world, were the subject of ...

Her species provided compelling evidence that upright walking evolved before large brains in human evolution.

Why did Vincent van Gogh paint a skeleton smoking a cigarette ... which led to cubism and then the birth of abstraction. This ...

The pollen specialist was part of the expedition that unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis in northeastern Ethiopia in ...

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

Recent excavations in Tajikistan's Zeravshan Valley uncovered an archaeological site dating back as far as 150,000 years, ...

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers ...

From the formation of inner ear bones to the rise of hair to cover our bodies, these developments made us distinct from other ...

A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in ...

“Most genetic work has focused on how mating with Neanderthals impacted modern human evolution, but these questions are also ...