It’s proposed that this skull belongs to a new species, known as Homo longi, but there are many anthropologists that believe the skull belongs to a Denisovan. Kennedy slashing 10,000 jobs in ...

The site is significant because it offers a remarkable snapshot of human evolution and evidence of a species known as Homo heidelbergensis, an extinct hominin species that lived approximately ...

Someone brought them. That someone, it now seems, was our ancestors. Possibly Homo erectus, one of the first species to walk upright, to wield fire, and to migrate across continents.

Fossil evidence indicates that species such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived in Africa and other regions during this period. These species could be potential candidates for the ...

Early fossils from Asia are also more numerous and more complete, while their European counterparts are limited to an isolated tooth, a fragment of jaw and a partial skull cap ... of a hominin species ...

ergaster bones found at the oldest site, Gombore IB, the skull fragments of a Homo heidelbergensis and a Homo sapiens were recovered from Gombore II-1 and Garba IIIE, respectively. These spheres ...

a fragment of jaw and a partial skull cap. The evidence of settlement at Gran Dolina has been dated to about 860,000 years ago. While Rosa shares her delicate build with Homo antecessor ...

According to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Cambridge, modern humans descended not from a single lineage but from two distinct populations of ancestors that first diverged ...

Early fossils from Asia are also more numerous and more complete, while their European counterparts are limited to an isolated tooth, a fragment of jaw and a partial skull cap ... of a hominin species ...

Fossils from the era point to two species, Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis, that inhabited Africa and other regions. Either could be candidates for the ancestral groups identified in the study.

Comparison of Neanderthal and modern human DNA suggests that the two lineages diverged from a common ancestor, most likely Homo heidelbergensis, sometime between 350,000 and 400,000 years ago ...