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The first human-like traits to appear in the hominin fossil record are bipedal walking and smaller, blunt canines.

Now the challenge -- one of the ultimate questions in the study of human origins -- is to understand why the earliest hominids stood up. "Bipedalism is a fundamental human characteristic," said Dr ...

Prior to this discovery, the site of Dmanisi in the country of Georgia was thought to contain the oldest evidence of hominin ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence showing a hominin presence in Europe, half-a-million years earlier than previously thought ...

Kimolo Mulwa at the site of the first hominin footprint discovery in 1978 ... though it could have been dangerous for bipedal primates 4 or 5 feet (1.2 to 1.5 meters) tall. Even today, people ...

Lucy showed that human ancestors were up and walking around long before the earliest stone tools were made or brains got bigger, and subsequent fossil finds of much earlier bipedal hominids have ...

According to a study published in Nature Communications, faunal remains from Grăunceanu, part of the Tetoiu Formation, were analysed, showing cut marks consistent with hominin butchery techniques. The ...

Research reveals new evidence of early hominin activity in Europe, suggesting that hominins were present on the continent far earlier than previously thought.

Fossilized footprints preserved in rock do the same—they record instances in the lives of many different extinct organisms, back to the earliest ... the behavior of hominin species that walked ...