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June 25, 2021 A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University. The largest of Homo skulls, scientists now say this skull represents ...
Oct. 28, 2021 Palaeoanthropologists have announced the naming of a new species of human ancestor, Homo bodoensis. This species lived in Africa during the Middle Pleistocene, around half a million years ago, and ...
Oct. 14, 2021 Although there has been evidence of our species living in rainforest regions in Southeast Asia from at least 70,000 years ago, the poor preservation of organic material in these regions limits how ...
Feb. 14, 2024 Vittrup Man was born along the Scandinavian coast before moving to Denmark, where he was later sacrificed, according to a new ...
Nov. 13, 2023 A new study casts doubt on claims that Homo naledi, a small-brained hominin dating to between 335-241,000 years ago, deliberately buried their dead and produced rock art in Rising Star Cave, South ...
Apr. 13, 2021 A new study verifies the age and origin of one of the oldest specimens of Homo erectus -- a very successful early human who roamed the world for nearly 2 million years. In doing so, the researchers ...
Apr. 13, 2022 A study provides clear evidence for a link between astronomically-driven climate change and human ...
Aug. 24, 2022 The modalities and date of emergence of bipedalism remain bitterly debated, in particular because of a small number of very old human fossils. Sahelanthropus tchadensis, discovered in 2001 in Chad, ...
June 26, 2023 Researchers have identified the oldest decisive evidence of humans' close evolutionary relatives butchering and likely eating one ...
May 6, 2021 In the 150 years since Charles Darwin speculated that humans originated in Africa, the number of species in the human family tree has exploded, but so has the level of dispute concerning early human ...