Researchers reconstructed childbirth in early hominins and how infant shoulders played a crucial role, uncovering the secrets of the evolution of human birth.
The emerging development of language skills fast-forwarded collective learning which gave Homo Sapiens a distinctive advantage over their hominid cousins.
Part of the reason the human ancestor known as Lucy is so famous is that her bones, discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, indicated her hominin species, Australopithecus afarensis.
Rock deposits in a cave system inhabited by early human ancestors in South Africa may be almost 2-million years younger than previously thought, a new study has found, which may cast doubt over whether humankind may have originated in the country.