Published in Quaternary Environments and Humans, the study reveals that Homo erectus and other archaic humans once inhabited ...

Recent research clobbered that theory by showing pre-modern hominins evolution unique to Europe: The fossil, uncovered at the ...

Exciting new research reveals a fascinating connection between the ancient Dragon Man skull, unearthed in China, and the ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

A recent study published in the journal L’anthropologie provides new data on one of the most fascinating mysteries of human ...

DNA and protein analysis of a 146,000-year-old skull shows for the first time what the face of this species, which occupied ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

Maba 1 also suffered trauma before death, but the specific cause of the trauma remains unknown.

What will humans look like after ten thousand years or one lakh years from now? Will they be shorter? Will they be taller or thinner? Will the humans be more intelligent or will they be stupid? These ...

The Homo erectus fossil was discovered in 2011 due to a large construction project in the Madura Strait. However, it wasn't until this month that scientists published the findings in the journal ...

Homo erectus is a key ancestor of modern humans. Emerging at least two million years ago, they were the first to develop human-like proportions and the first to migrate out of Africa, eventually ...

Homo erectus may have copied this practice from these populations,” Berghuis said. “This suggests there may have been contact between these hominin groups, or even genetic exchange." ...