Over the years, discoveries of the remains of ancient humans different to the Homo sapiens genus have slowly picked apart the mysterious ... and lead author of a prior study on a male Homo naledi ...

The partially complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton Lucy ... Until recently, scientists thought that only animals of the genus Homo, which emerged around 2 million years ago, made stone ...

as its skeleton helped to prove that bipedalism evolved before a large brain did. Another complete skull from an adult A. africanus was nicknamed Mrs. Ples after its original genus, Plesianthropus ...

Australopithecus sediba (centre) and modern human (far right) skeletons are adapted to walking upright ... a much smaller brain than humans It isn't until the emergence of the genus Homo that we begin ...

Until recently, scientists thought that only animals of the genus Homo, which emerged around 2 million years ... To try and answer this question, my team reconstructed the complete skeleton of Lucy, ...

The first two skeletons removed from the pit were a young ... species enough like us to be called human—a member of the genus Homo. "This is where that story may have begun," he says, as he ...

"Evidence for different hominin populations in Western Europe during the Early Pleistocene suggests that this region was a key point in the evolutionary history of the genus Homo ...

The 11.6-million-year-old bones still don’t tell us how members of the genus Homo became bipeds Tree ... about 15 percent of that creature’s skeleton, including nearly complete specimens ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago. They lived in mosaic habits (a mixture of open and wooded ...