Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin and shows foot features that are transitioning from vertical climbing to bipedal walking. While Ardi has the primitive grasping big toe of the ...

Explore how gene duplications in human evolution shaped our genetic landscape and set us apart from our ape relatives. Physically, we are incredibly different from our ape cousins but genetically, ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

A species known to scientists as Heidelberg Man roamed Africa and Europe between approximately 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, and may be the common ancestor of both modern humans and Neanderthals. Why ...