Archaeologists excavating Chagyrskaya Cave in the Altai foothills have found 90,000 stone artifacts, numerous bone tools, 74 Neanderthal fossils, and animal and plant remains in 59,000- to 49,000-year-old deposits.
According to a new study published in the journal Cell, modern Papuans carry hundreds of gene variants from two Denisovan lineages -- distinct from Altai Denisovans -- that separated over 350,000 years ago.
Fossil finds in China are challenging ideas about the evolution of modern humans and our closest relatives.
A new fossil human ancestor has made its way into the media spotlight, and it’s causing quite a ruckus.
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Here are 10 mysteries about human evolution, including why our brains are so big, why humans are bipedal, and other questions about Neanderthals, hobbits and other extinct relatives.
In recent months, numerous DNA studies of ancient humans have all converged on one conclusion – Neanderthals and Homo sapiens interbred. While for many this may seem unsurprising or even obvious, we must remember that until fairly recently the predominant scientific theory was that Neanderthals and
Human evolution is not a line of cartoons from a bent-over chimpanzee to a modern human, it's a complex business according to the experts.
The year 2021 was filled with all kinds of human evolution discoveries and scientific progress. From the 250,000-year-old skeletal remains of a Homo naledi child in South Africa, to the smiley face of a Dutch Neanderthal called Krijn,
Homo naledi, discovered in a cave near Johannesburg, is a human ancestor unlike any species previously known. The find is arguably one of the most important discoveries in human origins research in half a century. It’s also the most perplexing.
New research shows the extent to which our ancestors interbred
The face of Neanderthal on the cover of this issue of Answers was sculpted and designed over a plaster cast of an actual Neanderthal skull.
The Hominidae , whose members are known as the great apes[note 1] or hominids , are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo ; Gorilla ; Pan ; and Homo, of which only modern humans remain.[1]
The year 2021 was filled with all kinds of human evolution discoveries and scientific progress. From the 250,000-year-old skeletal remains of a Homo naledi child in South Africa, to the smiley face of a Dutch Neanderthal called Krijn,
This past Sunday, I attended the last day of the Macau Food Festival. At sunset, I noticed a great gray heron circling in the sky and managed to snap a few photos. Unfortunately, I didn't bring my zoom lens and this series was the best I could do. Great gray herons remind me of Pterodactyls. They are a close relative of the great blue herons of North America I grew up with.
Two bonobos living in an Iowa sanctuary have made stone tools resembling those used by our ancestors. The tools hint at untapped cognitive reserves in humanity's close relatives, who perhaps should be seen less as great apes than early humans.
A broad range of evidence suggests that Neanderthals and Denisovans shared with us something like modern speech and language.
Modern humans, Homo Sapiens, are now the only surviving member of the homo genus. It is almost inconceivable to us that there was a time we walked with other human species, but as the science of archaeology has progressed and more findings have been made it has become clear that the homo genus was once rife with different species.
A new study confirms close relationship of Ardipithecus ramidus to the subsequent Australopithecus and humans.
Why do so many large, dangerous animals live in Africa? Why are we so fascinated by monsters? The answers may lie in our past, when our ancestors lived alongside Africa's real monsters.
L’analisi dei reperti fossili in una grotta del Canada vicina al confine con l’Alaska dimostra la presenza di tracce dell’intervento umano nel Nord America molto prima di quanto era stato precedentemente stimato. Questo ha importanti conseguenze sulla dinamica delle migrazioni dal vecchio al nuovo continente
Indonesia is one of the first places where scientists discovered hominid fossils and is home to some of the oldest hominid bones outside of Africa
The rapid growth of young Neanderthals was more like that of chimpanzees and other apes, according to scientists
In 1856, a group of limestone miners found some strange looking bones in the Neander Valley, Dusseldorf, in Germany. Originally they were thought to be the...
Our species spread across the world from its African heartland about 60,000 years ago – but 3000 years ago, some humans went back to the homeland
Leakey and her husband, Louis Leakey, were a paleoanthropology power couple
