Other fossils discovered with A ... boisei walked upright. Homo habilis, which actually means "handy man," is apparently the first species to make and use primitive stone tools.

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own ...

Anthropologists have said human beings evolved in a straight line from Homo habilis to Homo erectus to us, Homo sapiens, over two million years. But fossil bones found in 2000 near Lake Turkana in ...

Researchers believe that members of the human family - hominids - and African apes once had a common ancestor, perhaps as recently as 5 to 10 million years ago. At some stage the hominids split ...

"It has never been clear where our own genus Homo came from - this new discovery, Australopithecus sediba could answer these questions," she says. The Sediba fossils are exceptionally well preserved, ...

Researchers believe that members of the human family - hominids - and African apes once had a common ancestor, perhaps as recently as 5 to 10 million years ago. At some stage the hominids split ...

Other fossils discovered with A ... boisei walked upright. Homo habilis, which actually means "handy man," is apparently the first species to make and use primitive stone tools.