When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists now recognize more than a dozen species in the Homo genus. So what, exactly, was the ...

The human family tree is looking more and more like an unruly bush. Paleontologists have now uncovered the teeth of two different ancient human lineages at the same site in northeastern Ethiopia. The ...

Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For over 100 years, textbooks have depicted human evolution as a linear ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected discovery teaches us something new about the development of our species. Relics ...

Ethiopian researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that fundamentally challenges our understanding of human evolution by uncovering fossil evidence of a previously unknown species that ...

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 ...

Early humans : of whom do we speak? / Richard E. Leakey -- Homo habilis - a premature discovery : remembered by one of its founding fathers, 42 years later / Phillip V. Tobias -- Where does the genus ...

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 ...

The history of anthropology is littered with many now-defunct hominid species that no longer have a place on the human family tree Erin Wayman The Smithsonian Institution’s Human Origins Initiative ...