Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than you may realize.

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg ...

floresiensis, H. luzonensis, H. longi, and H. juluensis in Asia and Nesher Ramla Homo in the Levant. Given what we know from historical events that chronicle human population exchanges through ...

The astonishingly small adult limb bone discovered in Indonesia rekindles debates about modern humans' ancient relative, Homo floresiensis. The new find offers fresh insights into this diminutive ...

In contrast, evolutionary theory puts humans (or hominins) last, just as does the biblical story of Genesis. Yet in all instances, the position confers on Homo sapiens a unique ... looking for living ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens ... visitors will see how physically adapted they were to cold climates. The tiny Homo floresiensis highlights another way in which our ...

It's fantastic to see such extremely good reproductions of important new fossil discoveries like Ardi and Homo floresiensis, as well as the latest groundbreaking research into the ancient human ...