Tens of thousands of years ago, an extraordinary chapter in the story of humanity unfolded. Two distinct branches of the ...

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling techniques.

The footprints, which had been attributed to the devil, appear to have been made by four different individuals of differing ...

Somehow, H. erectus was able to adjust to this new landscape. The early humans visited water holes that popped up after it ...

The findings could impact our understanding of when modern humans reached regions like East Asia and Australia Margherita Bassi The 35,000-year-old rock was found in Manot Cave, which was ...

This reconstructed visage of "Dragon Man" from the Harbin Skull is linked to a group of early humans called the Denisovans.

New research suggests at least some key distinctions date back earlier than previously estimated, hinting that modern and archaic humans – including our close, extinct relatives – have more in common ...

Lucy, an early human ancestor, could run upright but much slower than modern humans. New simulations show that muscle and ...

Ancient DNA [aDNA] from the oldest modern humans found in Europe, which was published this week,' Dr Huang said late this December, 'again showed closer similarity to Asians rather than Africans.' ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now ...