Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: Yes, your hands are 380 million years old, but can you also infer not just anatomy but ...

Update: Not only have we found a long-lost cousin, but it now appears that the skull of newly unveiled Australopithecus sediba contains a print of its brain. The skull of the young male ...

Dartmouth researchers investigate tree-climbing behavior of modern hunter-gatherers to elucidate our fossil ancestors' terrestrial versus arboreal preferences. But not so fast; this interpretation may ...

WALKING on two legs has proved fundamental to mankind’s supremacy on Earth. Our earliest ancestors who evolved from apes were the australopithecines who, while remaining very apelike, learned to walk ...

How far back in the human lineage does tool use extend? Fossil bones that bear evidence of butchery marks made by stone implements increase the known range of that behaviour to at least 3.2 million ...

DURING October 1954, Mr. C. K. Brain 1 discovered 129 trimmed, utilized or damaged stones in situ in the 18-ft. red, gravel-bearing, sandy layer 25 ft. above the australopithecine-carrying grey ...