"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

(Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same ...

Modern human beings are the ultimate apex species, exerting dominance over our environment in a way that no other animal ever ...