WASHINGTON – Fossils have long provided snapshots of the human family tree, but a new find in Africa gives scientists a kind of mini home movie showing man's primal development. Because the ...

A new method to estimate sexual dimorphism in fossil species near the base of our family tree has been just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), through the joint ...

While moviegoers maybe gearing up for Will Smith’s latest film Concussion, his daughter, 15-year-old Willow Smith has swooped in and stolen the spotlight with the release of her surprise debut album ...

Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the ...

The world's oldest and most complete skeleton of a potential human ancestor has been unveiled by an international team of researchers. Their unprecedented 17-year investigation of 'Ardi', short for ...

For the first time, scientists have thoroughly described Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. Several new studies offer the first ...

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11 (UPI) --Willow Smith tweeted a link to her surprise debut album Friday after only vaguely hinting at its release. The 15-year-old singer and Marc Jacobs spokesmodel's album named ...

Teen visionary Willow Smith has been dropping allusions to December 11 on Twitter, and now it’s clear why. This morning, the singer releases her debut album Ardipithecus, available on U.S. iTunes here ...

Out of the album's 15 tracks, Smith is credited as sole songwriter on 14 of them and sole producer on 10. Other production credits go to her older brother AcE (Trey Smith) on three of the tracks and ...

It is hard to remember that Willow Smith is just 15-years-old at times. The expressive offspring of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith is already an accomplished musician, actress and fashion model and often ...