Stories by Alan Walker

A new species of Australopithecus, the ancestor of Homo, pushes back the origins of bipedalism to some four million years ago

A new species of Australopithecus, the ancestor of Homo, pushes back the origins of bipedalism to some four million years ago

Sixty years after its discovery, Proconsul is now known to be the last common ancestor of great apes and human beings rather than an extinct ancestor of the chimpanzee and the gorilla

This region on the shore of Lake Turkana in northeastern Kenya is a treasure trove of fossils of early members of the genus Homo and their close relatives dating back 1.5 million years and more