A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.
Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...
National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...
Far before modern humans ever walked the Earth, our Homo erectus ancestors made arduous journeys to the present-day islands of Southeast Asia. Fossil remnants of H. erectus have been left all across ...
According to Dr Baab, this may reflect the Gona population preserving traits from the earliest Homo erectus groups that left ...
Digital reconstruction of Ethiopian fossil shows a mix of primitive, classic features, says research team - Anadolu Ajansı ...
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A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially believed to belong to Homo erectus, is now thought to be part of the Asian longi clade, closely linked to the Denisovans, which ...
Well if there's one thing genomic analysis has taught us, it's that no hominid is ever really gone. Seriously though. We've got, what, two Denisovan sites and there is already evidence for possible ...