Picture this: 4.4 million years ago, a small female creature named Ardi roamed the woodlands of what is now Ethiopia. She was not fully ape and not fully human. She was something beautifully ...
The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs – a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this ...
WASHINGTON — Fossils have long provided snapshots of the human family tree, but a new find in Africa gives scientists a kind of mini home movie showing man’s primal development. Because the ...