Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...

New fossils from South Africa are reshaping the story of early human evolution. Researchers have described 18 hominin fossils from Drimolen Cave, including an adult Homo erectus skull fragment dated ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an exciting find hits the headlines, paleoanthropology and its related fields ...

Protein and cranial analyses link Xujiayao to the Denisovan lineage and support the same broad assignment for several other ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday. The ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis ...

A discovery in northern Kenya hints that two extinct species that were our ancient relatives shared the same habitat and possibly interacted. A trackway of footprints found in northern Kenya is ...

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A Spanish cave has divulged the oldest known fossil remains of human ancestors in Western Europe. Excavations at a site known as Sima del Elefante produced several fossil fragments that, when pieced ...