Early Humans
NEW YORK - Two ancient animal bones from Ethiopia show signs of butchering by human ancestors, moving back the earliest evidence for the use of stone tools by about 800,000 years, researchers say.
WASHINGTON - Scientists may have found the great, great, great, etc., grandfather of the famous fossil Lucy.
NEW YORK - Last fall, a fossil skeleton named "Ardi" shook up the field of human evolution.
WASHINGTON - We have met Neanderthal and he is us - at least a little.
WASHINGTON - Two skeletons nearly 2 million years old and unearthed in South Africa are part of a previously unknown species that scientists say fits the transition from ancient apes to modern humans.
