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 an…
Rising temperatures approximately 1.4 million years ago might have assisted the migration of hominins out of Africa and into Europe, a new study suggests.
Several hominin teeth found the Paleolithic site of La Cotte de St Brelade in Jersey may belong to Neanderthal-Homo sapiens hybrids, according to new research led by the Natural History Museum, London.
Paleoanthropologists say Homo naledi, a primitive-looking relative to modern humans, was likely much smarter than the current understanding of the primitive hominins would suggest.
She had some pretty powerful legs.
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.
Chronological list of human developments and inventions from the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age based on the present archeological evidence.
Lucy has been honoured with a Google Doodle on the 41st anniversary of her discovery
The 13-year-old girl’s mother was a Neanderthal while her father was a Denisovan
