Eighteen newly described hominin fossils from a single cave in South Africa include an adult Homo erectus, the first of its species recovered from that site, a specimen catalogued as DNH 127 and dated ...

About 1.4 million years ago, a hominin whose facial fragments were later found at Sima del Elefante lived in what is now ...

Textbooks say human birth is uniquely hard because of our big heads. A new primate comparison found squirrel monkeys, ...

The fossil record shows that our Homo erectus ancestors were the first hominins to show signs of adapting to life on the ...

Nearly half a million years ago, long before Homo sapiens walked the Earth, early hominins on a riverbank in Zambia did something scientists thought impossible for their time: they built a structure ...

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The findings, published last week in the Royal Society of Open Science, demonstrate that so-called pathogen sensitivity is ...

Amid the daunting saga that is human evolution, the Neanderthals, so recent and closely studied, are in many ways the ...

Scientists say early human relatives could have met the largest primate that ever lived. Gigantopithecus blacki stood nearly ...

Under the corrugated iron roof, amidst the drifting scent of cheap curry from the engineering department's cafeteria, the ...

An overlooked skull fragment among South African fossils reinforces the very early presence of Homo erectus far from East Africa. The discovery comes from Drimolen, a site located about 40 km ...

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