Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago unearthed in a Moroccan cave are providing a deeper understanding of ...

An international research team reports the analysis of new hominin fossils from the site of Thomas Quarry I (Casablanca, ...

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first ...

Archaeologists attempted to discover the origins of various human populations and determine if they had any interactions. The discovery of human teeth unearthed at the Hualongdong site in Anhui ...

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Our early human ancestors might have been more adaptable than previously thought: New research suggests Homo erectus was able to survive—and even thrive—after its home in East Africa shriveled up and ...

As experts study the human fossil record of Asia, many have come to see it as telling a different story than what happened in Europe and Africa. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

Well if there's one thing genomic analysis has taught us, it's that no hominid is ever really gone. Seriously though. We've got, what, two Denisovan sites and there is already evidence for possible ...

A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals – that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100 ...