They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

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New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

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A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

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This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

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I/ATLAS shows baffling energy and composition that defy cometary physics, sparking scientific scrutiny and debate over its ...