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Breakthrough of the Year Photo: PA From The Telegraph: The discovery of a short, ape like creature, that lived more than four million year...

From Wired Science: For decades, paleoartists have told the story of human evolution through sculpture and drawing. Now their tools have evo...

The first specimen of Paranthropus boisei, also called Nutcracker Man, was reported by Mary and Louis Leakey in 1959 from a site in Olduvai ...

Image: A fossil discovery suggests humans may be descended from an animal that resembles present-day lemurs like this one. AP Photo/Karen T...

From The Telegraph: The entire human race outside Africa owes its existence to the survival of a single tribe of around 200 people who cross...

The first modern European: Forensic artist Richard Neave reconstructed the face based on skull fragments from 35,000 years ago From Daily Ma...

The San people, hunter-gatherers in south-west Africa for thousands of years, are believed to be the oldest population of humans on Earth Fr...

A newly reconstructed deformed fossil skull suggests our human ancestors probably cared for deformed offspring for years. From Wired Science...

Image : Artist's rendition of Homo floresiensis. Credit: National Geographic Society/ Peter Schouten From Live Science: A cast of a ...

Darryl Granger, a Purdue professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, stands with the accelerator mass spectrometer used in a study that det...

A photograph of the footprint's upper footprint surface showing good definition of the toe pads; the second toe is partially obscured by...

From nps.org From Live Science: The Americas were the last (well, second-to-last if you count Antarctica) continents to be inhabited by earl...

A map of Europe and part of the Middle East depicts the approximate range of the Neanderthals as provided by Richard Klein. The illustration...

The gene known as MC1R suggests the Neanderthals had fair skin and even freckles like redheads. From The Telegraph: Neanderthals living in ...

Together in death. Genetic analysis suggests that a mother, a father, and their two boys were buried in the same grave. Credit: Photo court...

This map shows the Kibish Formation site, where the fossils of the earliest modern human were found. The site is located in southwest Ethiop...

A generalized map of the Sahara shows the location of the sample sites and the fossilized river courses. (Credit: Anne Osborne) From Science...

A sculptor's rendering, part of an exhibit focusing on the 3.2-million- year-old hominid called Lucy, shows how she might have looked in...

This map shows the Kibish Formation site, where the fossils of the earliest modern human were found. The site is located in southwest Ethiop...

The Gibraltar caves from the sea. All have evidence of Neanderthal occupation. Photograph: Natural History Museum, London From The Guardian ...