This tiny bump on an ancient thigh bone has become a big deal for anyone trying to pin down when the human story truly began.

The oldest ancestor of humans may be a seven-million-year-old ape, which started walking upright two million years earlier than other hominids. Sahelanthropus tchadensis was first discovered in 2002, ...

Sitting is a stable position that should ideally reduce pressure on the body, yet many people collapse their posture, which ...

It's considered one of the most decisive steps in human evolution. Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed when our ...

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Anthropologists have uncovered evidence of an ancient ape species that roamed Africa on two feet seven million years ago, potentially rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Scientists at New York ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...