Scientists made a surprising discovery when studying fossils of a distant human relative – Paranthropus robustus ...

Analysis - For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and was built ...

A shocking discovery in southwestern Kenya is rewriting the history of early human evolution. Ancient tools found alongside ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the only existing members of the human family tree. However, our evolutionary journey began around 6 million years ago and gave rise to at least 18 species, ...

Fossils of Australopithecus, Kenyanthropus, and Paranthropus species show a mix of adaptations that have ape-like and human-like characteristics.

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In the middles of these branches are early hominins like Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo species, as well as extinct ape-like species.