This academic has theorized about what would happen if humans became extinct and reveals who our successor would be.

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

National Research Council (U.S.) Board on Earth Sciences and Resources "The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

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Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

Fossilized human teeth spanning two million years of evolution were studied for lead content, which was surprisingly high. To see the effect of lead on the human brain then and now, researchers ...