A new study verifies the age and origin of one of the oldest specimens of Homo erectus -- a very successful early human who roamed the world for nearly 2 million years. In doing so, the researchers ...
Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...
A Homo erectus skullcap found northwest of Johannesburg in South Africa has been identified as the oldest to date, in research published in Science. The hominin is a direct ancestor of modern humans, ...
On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...
The origin story of Homo floresiensis, an oddball member of the human family that lived as recently as 60,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Flores, is coming into focus. With its miniature ...
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300,000-year-old teeth from China may be evidence that humans and Homo erectus interbred, according to new study
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 ...
A Homo erectus skullcap found northwest of Johannesburg in South Africa has been identified as the oldest to date, in research published in Science. The hominin is a direct ancestor of modern humans, ...
Researchers at the Hexian hominid site in He county, Ma'anshan City, East China's Anhui Province, have recently made a major ...
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Well if there's one thing genomic analysis has taught us, it's that no hominid is ever really gone. Seriously though. We've got, what, two Denisovan sites and there is already evidence for possible ...
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