Scientists have discovered what may have prompted early human ancestors to begin developing speech and language. As the landscape in which ancient hominids lived transformed from dense forests to ...

Adding to our understanding of the cognitive and behavioral attributes of Homo erectus and other early human species, these findings suggest that Pleistocene hominids paid “constant attention to ...

The Homo genus began approximately 2.3 million years ago with Homo Habilis, the first species in this lineage, which led to modern humans, Homo sapiens sapiens.

This would place Homo erectus within that period of Oldowan and Acheulean toolmaking and, the researchers say, would also suggest these ancient hominids adapted early and quickly to the high ...

An illustration of the Homo erectus child with her mother in the Ethiopian highlands, two million years ago Diego Rodríguez Robredo Archaeologists are rewriting the story of an early human child ...

Dated to about 700,000 years old, the new findings shed light on the evolution of Homo floresiensis, the so-called 'Hobbits' of Flores whose remains were uncovered in 2003 at Liang Bua cave in the ...

In ‘The Naked Neanderthal,’ Ludovic Slimak claims that those early hominids were ‘never other versions of us’ The paleoanthropologist argues that the Neanderthal was ‘an utterly ...

NEWS AND VIEWS 13 November 2024 Growing up slowed down for an early Homo individual Human children pair fast growth of a large brain with slow body growth.

Citations I. Hershkovitz et al. A Middle Pleistocene Homo from Nesher Ramla, Israel. Science. Vol. 372, June 25, 2021, p. 1424. doi: 10.1126/science.abh3169. Y ...

Dated to about 700,000 years old, the new findings shed light on the evolution of Homo floresiensis, the so-called "Hobbits of Flores," whose remains were uncovered in 2003 at Liang Bua cave in ...