ARUSHA: THE wind sweeps across jagged cliffs and deep ravines at Olduvai Gorge, carrying whispers of footsteps that walked ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations ...

Humans are the only primates with a chin, leaving biologists to wonder why we acquired this unique feature. According to a new analysis of head anatomy in apes, it probably didn’t evolve for a ...

Human ancestor species Homo erectus arrived in East Asia hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously thought, a new fossil discovery in China shows. Homo erectus, a distant ancestor of ...

Scientific work at the site, which lies 42 km south-west of Beijing, is still underway. So far, it has led to the discovery of the remains of Sinanthropus pekinensis, who lived in the Middle ...

Broom, R., and Schepers, G. W. H., The South African Fossil Ape-men: The Australopithecinae. Transvaal Mus. Mem., No. 6 (1946). Broom, R., and Robinson, J. T ...

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...

Homo habilis is explored as one of the earliest species in the Homo genus, dating to roughly 2.3 million years ago. Fossils ...

Tiny triangular-shaped flints from arrowheads found in Uzbekistan shed light on how the first settlement of ‘Homo sapiens’ – ...

Unretouched triangular microlithic projectile points have been identified from their impact traces in the oldest occupation layers of the Obi-Rakhmat site in Uzbekistan, dating to 80,000 years ago.

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