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

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

Evidence of one of the smallest - and perhaps unluckiest - early human relatives has been found in South Africa, according to ...

So for example, there was a group of humans that was called Homo floresiensis that lived in Flores, which is an island in Indonesia, probably until about 50,000 years ago, when the first humans ...

and ‘Hobbit’ (Homo floresiensis, about 90,000 years old) skeletons, from Ethiopia and Indonesia, respectively. Femur and Tibia in articulatio. “The small size of the new Paranthropus ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

Related: 1.4 million-year-old jaw that was 'a bit weird for Homo' turns out to be from never-before-seen human relative "She was certainly robust in the pelvis and at the hip joint," Pickering said.

Paranthropus robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal new insights into their diet, social structure, and survival 2 ...