Outside of humans, orangutans are the primate outlier when it comes to long childhoods, reaching adulthood at eight to 10 ...

Explore the complex 2-million-year journey of human evolution. From the Handy Man in Africa to the interbreeding of ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought. By Franz Lidz Early ...

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest known species in our genus “A finding like this does give hope,” says William ...

Human ancestors were all hominins, but not every species that came before us belonged to the Homo (human) genus. The earliest members of that particular group have long been thought to be Homo habilis ...

Dust and sun define field seasons in East Turkana. So do patience and sharp eyes. In northern Kenya, a set of bones pulled from the ground has now changed what scientists can say about one of your ...

Researchers have uncovered the most complete Homo habilis skeleton ever found, dating back over 2 million years and preserving numerous anatomical features characteristic of early human ancestors, ...

A recently analyzed Homo habilis skeleton, dating back over 2 million years, is reshaping our understanding of early human evolution and may provide crucial insights ...

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved Homo habilis skeleton dating back more than 2 million years. The fossil, ...

One of the most important questions in human evolution concerns the identity of the first human to leave Africa. A new study, however, fundamentally challenges the central role traditionally ...

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” That was Karl Marx, but it could as easily have been Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, one of the world’s leading AI ...