The 13-year-old girl’s mother was a Neanderthal while her father was a Denisovan
Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern human beings belong and the only member of the genus Homo that is not extinct. The name ‘Homo sapiens’ was applied in 1758 by the father of modern biological classification, Carolus Linnaeus. The earliest fossils of the species date to about 315 thousand years ago.
Paleontologists have discovered a 3.8 million-year-old skull in Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia that reveals the face of a male Australopithecus anamensis. Identified mainly by its projecting cheekbones and canine-esque teeth, the newfound hominin cranium provides new information about our earliest human ancestors. Previously, the 3.2m-year-old iconic hominin bones of Australopithecus Afarensis, best known as before Lucy, served […]
Hominin faces - especially those of australopithecines - evolved to minimize injury from punches to the face during fights between males.
Paleontologists have discovered a 3.8 million-year-old skull in Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia that reveals the face of a male Australopithecus anamensis. Identified mainly by its projecting cheekbones and canine-esque teeth, the newfound hominin cranium provides new information about our earliest human ancestors. Previously, the 3.2m-year-old iconic hominin bones of Australopithecus Afarensis, best known as before Lucy, served […]
Ever since humanity first began to think, we have always had an interest in where we first began as a species. Cultures throughout the entire world invented myths and legends to explain our origins…
What is the difference between Hominid and Hominin? Hominid and hominin are two groups of primates. Hominidae is a family consisting of chimpanzees,...
Animal life on Earth existed for over half a billion years before hominins hit the scene – a complex combination of environmental changes, innovations in technology and competition may have led to us
Would we still see our humanity in the same way if other hominin species – from Australopithecus to Neanderthals – hadn't gone extinct?
A partial skeleton of Paranthropus boisei represents one of the most recent occurrences of the hominin before its extinction in East Africa.
The evolutionary origins of the tiny Indonesian hominin Homo floresiensis have perplexed us for years – now there’s a new twist to the tale, suggesting we had it figured out all wrong
The peculiar skull of a 400,000-year-old hominin hints that it was a precursor to Neanderthals, a new study finds.
Paleontologists have discovered a 3.8 million-year-old skull in Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia that reveals the face of a male Australopithecus anamensis. Identified mainly by its projecting cheekbones and canine-esque teeth, the newfound hominin cranium provides new information about our earliest human ancestors. Previously, the 3.2m-year-old iconic hominin bones of Australopithecus Afarensis, best known as before Lucy, served […]
Scholars are giving serious consideration to whether these members of the genus Homo are the same species after all.
This comprehensive review of all currently known Pleistocene rock art of Africa shows that the majority of sites are located in the continent’s south, but that the petroglyphs at some of them are of exceptionally great antiquity. Much the same applies to portable palaeoart of Africa. The current record is clearly one of paucity of evidence, in contrast to some other continents. Nevertheless, an initial synthesis is attempted, and some preliminary comparisons with the other continents are attempted. Certain parallels with the existing record of southern Asia are defined.
She had some pretty powerful legs.
A full skull of a Homo erectus has been unearthed in Georgia, and it suggests a radical rethink of our evolutionary history
Well-studied skeleton cast in new light thanks to fleshed-out fossil record
Earliest hominin activity in the Philippine archipelago is dated back to at least 709,000 years ago. Homo luzonensis, a species of archaic humans, was present on the island of Luzon at least 67,000
Researchers from the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology in Indonesia have claimed that here may have been two completely separate types of Denisovans.
Lucy is the nearly complete skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis, found in 1974 at AL 288, a site in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia.
If you bumped into a Homo erectus in the street you might not recognize them as being very different from you. You’d see a certain “human-ness” in the stance, and his or her size and shape might be similar to yours.
Stone Age ✓ We explain what the Stone Age was, and explore its characteristics and stages. In addition, we discuss human ancestors, and more.
You may have noticed that our ancestors are increasingly called hominins, which is the result of researchers revising how they classify primates
Homo habilis, extinct species of human, the most ancient member of the human genus. It inhabited parts of sub-Saharan Africa from roughly 2.4 to 1.5 million years ago. Many of its features appear to be intermediate between the relatively primitive Australopithecus and the more-advanced Homo species.
In 2015 the genome of Oase-1 was published, a Homo sapiens individual from Romania who lived 38-42 thousand years ago (ka). The study of the genetic material preserved in the mandible showed that t…
Learn more about the Homininae subfamily, including Hominini (humans and their ancestors), Panini (chimps), and Gorillini (gorillas).
The Filipino ethnic group known as the Ayta Magbukon have the highest level of Denisovan ancestry today, report experts at Uppsala University in Sweden.
The peculiar skull of a 400,000-year-old hominin hints that it was a precursor to Neanderthals, a new study finds.
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Hominin faces - especially those of australopithecines - evolved to minimize injury from punches to the face during fights between males.
Modern humans who have inherited genetic variants related to circadian rhythms from extinct hominins are more likely to be morning people
