Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

Abstract: Automatic human-posture or human-activity recognition is a very important research problem nowadays. In this work, we propose a novel human-posture recognition approach using the 3-D ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

Interoperability today is about enabling intelligent collaboration between systems themselves and redefining how enterprises interact with their own digital ecosystems.

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Neanderthals were the world's first innovators of fire technology, tiny specks of evidence in England suggest. Flecks of pyrite found at a more than 400,000-year-old archaeological site in Suffolk, in ...

Abstract: Skeletal graphs can represent concise and reliable features for human-activity recognition in recent years. However, they have to be acquired by Kinect sensors or regular cameras, which rely ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...