Genetic evidence suggests the last shared ancestor of present-day humans, as well as ancient Neanderthals and Denisovans, ...

The (un)lucky fossil, now known as Kabwe 1, represents a turning point at a time when Africa was considered peripheral to the story of human evolution. A century later, it’s widely accepted that the ...

In February 1925, Nature published 1 a paper by Raymond Dart, an anthropologist who spent most of his working life describing the first hominin fossil to have been found, Australopithecus Africanus — ...