Our species is the last living member of the human family tree. But just 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals walked the Earth, and hundreds of thousands of years before then, our ancestors overlapped with ...

The names scientists give to humanity’s ancient relatives are more than labels. They encode a story about who counts as close kin and who sits on a separate branch of the family tree. Now a researcher ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have uncovered evidence of two previously unknown ancestral lineages by working backward from DNA in living people. - ...

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than earlier species, a new study of human brain evolution has found. The team ...

Researchers have used genetics to create the largest human family tree ever made, allowing individuals to find out who their distant ancestors were and where they lived, as well as exactly how they ...

Learn how fossils show human ancestors did not grow bigger in a straight line, but split into larger and smaller evolutionary paths. Early relatives such as Australopithecus weighed around 88 pounds ...

The holotype upper jaw of Australopithecus deyiremeda (BRT-VP-3/1) found in Ethiopia on March 4, 2011, is shown in this image released to Reuters on May 26, 2015. Reuters/Yohannes ...

A 2 million-year-old flat-faced skull pulled from the sandstones of East Africa has shored up claims that at least three species of early humans once coexisted in an “evolutionary experiment” that saw ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...