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A completely new human ancestor dating back to 3.5– 3.3 million years ago has been discovered.

To understand how much thinking a brain can do, look at how much blood - and therefore how much energy - it uses.

As an intellectual history of the disciplines of paleontology and paleoanthropology, Kuljan’s book is especially adept at narrating the interwoven connections between science and power.

20 years ago, who could predict how much more researchers would know today about the human past – let alone what they could learn from a thimble of dirt, a scrape of dental plaque, or satellites in space.

An old technique to explore the inside of fossils unfortunately ended up destroying some unique specimens. New technology has been used to reconstruct one such fossil.

Beyond the cool factor of figuring out hominin hearing capacities two million years ago, these findings could help answer the tantalizing question of when did human vocalized language first emerge.

Not knowing exactly when regular meat consumption became part of our ancestors’ diets is a gap in our understanding of human evolution.

The challenge we face after a century of extraordinary discoveries is pinning down the lineage and mapping the evolutionary route through which we as human beings got here.

The history of human origins research is intimately intertwined with the prevalent socio-political landscape.

Cancer is not the modern disease many believe it to be. New fossil evidence from two South African caves suggests that its origins lie deep in prehistory.