A new archaeological study, conducted along the Jordan River banks south of northern Israel’s Hula Valley, offers a fresh ...

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

Ability of early humans to process plants using tools indicative of high level of cooperation, researchers say ...

Once they had thought the development of a large brain or the making and use of stone tools was the pivotal early evolutionary innovation setting human ancestors, the hominids, apart from the apes.

(Early hominids, such as the Australopithecines, grew at a faster rate than modern humans.) This fossilized skull was the first Autralopithecus specimen. With a brain larger than a chimp's but ...

Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus greatly exceeded the size of modern African elephants. Adults grew to around four meters tall at ...

Journal of Archaeological Science 20, 365-398 (1993). Domínguez-Rodrigo, M. Meat-eating by early hominids at the FLK 22 Zinjanthropus site, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): an experimental approach ...

MORE: Change in landscape for early hominids may have led to the development of speech, new study finds Neanderthals are believed to have become extinct about 40,000 years ago, Krause said.

Before 'Lucy,' There Was 'Ardi:' First Major Analysis of One of Earliest Known Hominids (5 of 5)...American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Before 'Lucy,' There Was 'Ardi:' First ...