In a rare congruence of new evidence, two fossil jaws cast a fused beam of light on one of the darkest mysteries in human evolution: the origin of our genus Homo.The two lower jaws—one a ...

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And when the Leakeys were pondering Homo habilis, they used a definition of Homo from 1955, which said that to be a member of the genus, you had to have some number of features in common with the ...

Anatomically speaking, it was also relatively similar to H. habilis, although fossil evidence shows the species had a notably bigger skull. This similarity has led to debates among ...

KNM-ER 1813 This fossil is one of the most complete skulls of this species, best known from the Turkana Basin (Kenya) and Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) in East Africa. It has a cranial capacity of only 510 ...

The earliest fossil evidence of our […] (THE CONVERSATION) – Homo sapiens, our own species, evolved in Africa sometime between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago.

The partial skeleton of this small-bodied, relatively small-brained female captured the public’s imagination.Lucy the “paleo-rock star” took our major fossil evidence for bipedal walking ...

But the previous oldest evidence for cut marks on a hominin fossil (which dates to between 2.6 million and 1.5 million years old) has recently been questioned; the marks, one team argued, were ...

What's the oldest fossil evidence humans have for our species? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The origin of our species ...

The discovery of a 700,000-year-old arm bone fossil and two teeth on the Indonesian island of Flores is shedding light on how the tiny, now-extinct human Homo floresiensis evolved.

Ancient Homo fossil teeth reveal that hominin dental growth rates began to slow before there was a major increase in brain size compared with apes. Analysis of fossil teeth provides evidence of a ...