Kayleigh explains why her playlist title “Hominids” is not wrong: hominids include all great apes, while hominins include ...

CRADLE OF HUMANKIND, South Africa — Matthew Berger, 9, dashed after his dog Tau into the high grass here one morning in 2008, tripped over a log and stumbled onto a major archaeological discovery.

Fossil find sheds light on the transition to Homo genus from earlier hominids These new fossils, however, represent a hominid that appeared approximately one million years later than Lucy, and their ...

Berkeley -- New fossils discovered in the Afar desert of eastern Ethiopia are a missing link between our ape-man ancestors some 3.5 million years ago and more primitive hominids a million years older, ...

A nearly complete hominid skeleton known as Little Foot has finally been largely freed from the stony shell in which it was discovered in a South African cave more than 20 years ago. And in the first ...

An international team with researchers from the University of Zurich is writing on the development history of humanity. They have discovered a new type of hominid in South Africa. The fossils with an ...

Foreword / J. Francis Thackeray -- 1. African genesis : an evolving paradigm / Sally C. Reynolds ; 2. Academic genealogy / Peter S. Ungar and Phillip V. Tobias -- pt. 1. In search of origins : ...

Walking was afoot long ago among toddler-aged members of a hominid species best known for Lucy’s partial skeleton. “The overall anatomy of this child’s foot is strikingly humanlike,” says study ...