Australopithecus anamensis plays a crucial role in the evolutionary chain as a likely ancestor of the more well-known ...

of the geologia layer in which were found the famous fossil footprints of’ Australopithecus afarensis that date to about 3.6 million years ago. Since moving to Glastonbury in 1994, Andrew developed a ...

And in the specific case of the most recent known nearby supernova, while humans weren’t around back then, several of our near ancestors, such as Australopithecus afarensis, were. One particular ...

The basis for the theory is that aliens are out there, but they are both silent and hostile. They keep quiet working on the ...

Where are they? Where on Earth are all the aliens? Well, not on Earth, or anywhere near. That’s very much the point.  At a ...

Species whose brains grew over time include Australopithecus afarensis, Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, and Homo neanderthalensis. However, the trend for brain enlargement over time was ...

The brains of modern humans are around 13% smaller than those of Homo sapiens who lived 100,000 years ago. Exactly why is ...

Forero, an evolutionary biologist at the University of St Andrews, in the U.K., is proposing a new theory to explain the massive growth of the human brain over its evolutionary history.

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox for free every month. This month I’m looking at the big picture ...

This collection of viewable hominin fossil 3D models was produced by the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program by 3D scanning casts and other replicas which are now on display in the Hall of Human ...