Nearly 3 million years ago, hominids employed stone tool kits to butcher hippos and pound plants along what’s now the shores of Kenya’s Lake Victoria, researchers say. Evidence of those food ...

The oldest ancestor of humans may be a seven-million-year-old ape, which started walking upright two million years earlier than other hominids.

ALBUQUERQUE — A tiny fossil thumb bone provides a gripping look at the early evolution of human hands, according to a study presented April 16 at the annual meeting of the American Association of ...

Our earliest ancestors probably behaved in a much more "human" way than most scientists have previously thought, according to a recent study that looked at early hominid fossils from Ethiopia.

This article uses insight from social ecology to model the evolution of and changes in the social structures of ancestral hominids during the Plio-Pleistocene. It argues that while changing climates ...

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Far up in the Ethiopian highlands, the resounding strike of stone against stone was probably a familiar one two million years ago. Ancient hominids chipped away to create simple tools: hammerstones ...

— -- You are what you eat.A corollary of that adage — hominids of 3 million years ago were what they ate — has providedpaleontologists insight into the diet of our early relatives. Surprisingly, ...

This skull from the Petralona Cave is one of the few hominid fossils found in Greece that date to the Middle Pleistocene. Image courtesy of Wikicommons Greece should be filled with hominid bones and ...

Get to know that little skull. Scientists are going to be talking about it for centuries. As researchers report in tomorrow's issue of Nature, the skull--and along with other parts of a ...

A new look at the diets of ancient African hominids shows a "game changer" occurred about 3.5 million years ago when some members added grasses or sedges to their menus, according to a new study. A ...

New research suggests hominids were building fire by at least one million years ago. Image courtesy of Wikicommons Discussions of fire and human evolution conjure up images of cavemen sitting around a ...