Human fossils

The species to which humans belong, homo sapiens, is believed to have come into existence between 100 000 - 200 000 years ago. Because this is too long ago for any written records to have existed, scientists must use other methods to gather information about our evolutionary past. The most useful of these methods have been the study of human fossils, the archeological record, and genetic analysis.

South Africa's status as a major cradle in the African nursery of humankind has been reinforced with today's unveiling of "Little Foot", the country's oldest, virtually complete fossil human ancestor. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

Lucy, the world’s most famous fossil human ancestor, has gone digital in 3-D. A new high-resolution CT scan of the 3.2 million-year-old skeleton will provide scientists around the globe with information that may help settle debates about human evolution. The virtual Lucy could prove invaluable to scientists by giving them their first glimpse inside her […]

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Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas and offer insight into life over 23,000 years ago.

This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we know about human evolution, and a suppression and cover-up which followed.

One of the back bones from the important early human comes from a baboon – a surprising discovery for such a well-studied primate fossil

We are the naked apes of the world, having shed most of our body hair long ago

In the 150 years since Charles Darwin speculated that humans originated in Africa, the number of species in the human family tree has exploded, but so has the level of dispute concerning early human evolution. Fossil apes are often at the center of the debate, with some scientists dismissing their importance to the origins of the human lineage (the "hominins"), and others conferring them starring evolutionary roles. A new review out on May 7 in the journal Science looks at the major…