People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

Homo erectus, which many believe was an ancestor of modern Homo sapiens, is thought to have died out 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

DNA and protein analysis of a 146,000-year-old skull shows for the first time what the face of this species, which occupied much of Asia and left its genes in modern humans, was like ...

In 1958, a seemingly insignificant discovery made by farmers in the Guangdong province of southern China would soon challenge centuries of human evolutionary theory. While collecting bat guano for ...

The inside of the skull’s frontal lobe turned out to be morphologically closer to Homo erectus than Neanderthals or Homo sapiens (though Homo erectus had a smaller brain than its two counterparts), ...

The inside of the skull’s frontal lobe turned out to be morphologically closer to Homo erectus than Neanderthals or Homo sapiens (though Homo erectus had a smaller brain than its two ...

Archaeologists working in Southeast Asia recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor, according to new studies.

Rather, the facial fragments belong to Homo affinis erectus— and the finding, reported today in Nature, indicates that the human population in Europe turned over at the end of the Early Pleistocene.

In this scenario, the Xujiayao fossils, and others with unusual features unearthed in China, were classified as intermediates between more primitive hominins such as Homo erectus and more modern ones.