Fossil evidence from Ethiopia has rewritten human history, showing Australopithecus lived one million years earlier than ...

A black vinyl record with a brick-red label spun on the Philips gramophone, playing Muluken Melese’s Bemistir Kiberign during one of our chaotic childhood ...

Since being discovered in 1994, Ardi’s 4.4-million-year-old remains have been at the heart of an anthropological debate. To ...

And It Demands Our Compassion. My New Year’s celebration this year was perhaps the most unusual yet deeply meaningful one I ...

African governments and other local actors have a crucial role to play in shaping the activities of Chinese firms.

A 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus fossil named "Ardi" shows early humans walked upright, keeping ape-like climbing ...

The first known hand fossils from an extinct human relative have been unearthed in Kenya, revealing a species with unexpected dexterity and a gorilla-like grip. The hand bones, which were discovered ...

The same Europe that painted God and Adam white also painted Africa dark — the myth of the “Dark Continent” was the secular echo of the religious lie that holiness and whiteness were the same. These ...

The findings of this study suggest that the first humans may have originated from apes that were accustomed to living in two ...

Learn more about Ardipithecus ramidus and how their ankle bone paints a better picture of how our ancestors transitioned from walking like apes to walking up right.

Ethiopia has accused Eritrea’s government of working with an opposition group based in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region to prepare for a military offensive, underscoring concerns of renewed conflict ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...