Excerpted from The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution, by Ian Tattersall. Palgrave Macmillan Trade, 2015. Copyright ...

Fifty years ago today, a groundbreaking discovery was unearthed in Ethiopia, the fossilized bones of a human ancestor, and you probably already know her name... (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LUCY IN THE SKY ...

Volume 1. Principles, methods, and approaches. Historical overview of paleoanthropological research / Winfried Henke ; Charles Darwin, paleoanthropology, and the modern synthesis / Franz M. Wuketits ; ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo provided by the Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project shows an Oldowan flake at the Nyayanga site in southwestern ...

The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (abbreviated to IVPP) of China is a prominent research institution and collections repository for fossils, including many dinosaur and ...