A study of a handful of 300,000-year-old teeth revealed an ancient human group had a mix of archaic and modern tooth features ...

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add ...

The study found that unlike other vertebrates where competition generally suppresses speciation after ecological niches are ...

A million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study.

The fossil of a wide-hipped Homo erectus found in Ethiopia suggests females of the pre-human species swayed their hips as they walked and gave birth to relatively developed babies with big heads, ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The oldest evidence of Homo erectus comes from an arid hillside near ...

Fossil bones and stone tools can tell us a lot about human evolution, but certain dynamic behaviours of our fossil ancestors - things like how they moved and how individuals interacted with one ...

Scientists have long theorized that meat is what made us human. The idea was that about two million years ago, an early human ancestor emerged. Homo erectus had a bigger brain, longer legs, and a ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

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Google Doodle has reminded us that we are an evolution of the initial species that lived on Earth and that humans are from the "Homo Erectus" line. In 1984, researchers have found traces of skeleton ...