Researchers discovered that Homo erectus adapted to hyperarid conditions in Tanzania one million years ago, challenging ...

An analysis of newly described Homo floresiensis fossils published Tuesday in the ... related to small-bodied hominins such as Homo habilis, only known from Africa, others have argued.

New evidence suggests that certain early human ancestors rarely consumed meat, adding new information to the timeline of ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence showing a hominin presence in Europe, half-a-million years earlier than previously thought ...

Christopher Bae, a professor in the department of anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who was based in Beijing for many years, is among scientists revisiting these puzzling fossils ...

Other fossils discovered with A ... boisei walked upright. Homo habilis, which actually means "handy man," is apparently the first species to make and use primitive stone tools.

fossil evidence suggests these traits didn't arise as a single package Earth’s astronomical cycles suggests multiple species of Homo overlapped Traits said to have developed later have been ...

Neanderthals evolved in Europe and Asia while modern humans - our species, Homo sapiens - were evolving in Africa. Judging from fossil evidence from Sima de los Huesos in northern Spain and Swanscombe ...

It's long been thought our species was unique in its ability to adapt to harsh climates like bone-dry deserts or thick-set rainforests.