(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

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Oldest Homo fossils: New finds in Ethiopia’s Afar region date to 2.8 million years ago, possibly the earliest known Homo remains, overlapping with Australopithecus. Island hobbit mystery: Homo ...

Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins -- and produced a 'bizarre' evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage -- according to a new study that revises the ...

A rock sitting quietly in a university lab turned out to contain something far more remarkable than anyone realized: what may ...

When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment at the Hadar fossil site in Ethiopia in 1974, he knew it was an extraordinary find, but little did he know just how much it would ...