In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

On this World Anatomy Day, Oct. 15, experts in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins Medicine are ...

The hosts explore how unconscious routines shape moral life, questioning whether structure liberates or limits us — and how awareness, discipline and culture define everyday ethical growth.

The first set of ancient hand fossils from an ape-like cousin of humans discovered in Kenya suggest a number of species were ...

A study published in Science Advances and led by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, uncovers how flexibility made ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long period of childhood.

For decades, anthropologists believed that thin grooves etched into ancient human teeth were the earliest evidence of tool ...

A new study is challenging these old assumptions. An international team of researchers has analyzed over 531 teeth from 27 ...