Early humans may have feasted on Neanderthal children 45,000 years ago, according to a grisly new study. Researchers have ...

The oldest ancestor of humans may be a seven-million-year-old ape that started walking upright two million years earlier than other hominids. Sahelanthropus tchadensis was first discovered in 2001, ...

Anthropologists have uncovered evidence of an ancient ape species that roamed Africa on two feet seven million years ago, ...

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Newly uncovered fossils have helped researchers determine that an unusual 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot discovered in 2009 does not belong to Lucy’s species. Instead, the evidence now indicates ...

ABSTRACT: The paper posits that kin sociality and eusociality are derived from the handicap-care principles based on the need-based care to the handicappers from the caregivers for the self-interest ...

A new analysis of two 7.2 million-year-old fossils belonging to a hominin species nicknamed “El Graeco” from Mediterranean Europe, suggests that mankind emerged in Europe and not in Africa. The new ...