The first members of the human lineage lack many features that distinguish us from other primates. Although it has been a difficult quest, we are closer than ever to knowing the mother of us all. Aa ...

Scientists from Berkeley, Cleveland and Japan may have finally identified the first complete species of hominids, or human ancestors, that emerged almost 6 million years ago, after the evolutionary ...

A 6 million-year-old creature that lacked sharp canines for fighting may be the first prehuman to have branched off from the ape line, researchers said Thursday. The short, small-brained creature may ...

Six newly discovered fossil teeth from the hominid Ardipithecus, which lived in eastern Africa more than 5 million years ago, have sharpened the scientific debate about our evolutionary origins. “It ...

Hominid refers to the family of primates that includes all species on the “human ” side of the evolutionary tree after the split from chimpanzees.. Two reports on the extraordinary discovery appeared ...

Paleoanthropologists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History have found more fossils of a nearly 6-million-year-old human ancestor first reported three ...

Another species has been added to the family tree of early human ancestors – and to controversies over how straight or tangled were the branches of that tree. Long before Homo erectus, ...

Ardipithecus kadabba, a short, small-brained hominid, did not have the long teeth found in chimpanzees. The researchers believe this feature and the animal's age means it was possibly the first ...