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 ...

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 ...

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. Fossils of Homo Habilis were found ...

The culture is very similar to Homo erectus, based on the stone tools we recovered,” Zohar said. “I believe these early hominids had higher cognitive abilities than some researchers believe ...

Understanding how early Homo sapiens ventured into Eurasia offers key insights into human evolution, the extinction of Neanderthals, and the rise of modern humans. Recent discoveries reveal that ...

From left, the Cederberg mountain range in South Africa, the Tenere desert in Niger and savanna in South Africa. (Associated Press photos) WASHINGTON — Humans are the only animal that lives in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Age of hotly debated skull from early human Homo erectus determined, new specimens discovered Scientists also find two new, nearly 2-million-year-old specimens--likely the earliest pieces of the H ...