The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

A 3.4M-year-old set of foot bones from Ethiopia is forcing paleoanthropologists to redraw one of the most familiar diagrams ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

Hank brings you the facts, as they are understood by scientists today, about the evolution of humans from our humble primate ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...

In the technical description, the authors emphasize that the skeleton includes clavicle and shoulder-blade fragments, both upper arms, both forearms, plus part of the sacrum and hip bones - rare ...