A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

A 1.5-million-year-old skull suggests Homo erectus evolved through a messy transition, with multiple human forms coexisting.

The reconstruction was produced by an international research team led by Dr Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at Midwestern ...

According to Dr Baab, this may reflect the Gona population preserving traits from the earliest Homo erectus groups that left ...

The discovery and the use of fire changed the nature of the digestion of food, creating additional calories. Serotonin, a ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean lines they once drew through our family tree. These remains, from a species ...

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The homo habilis means “handy man”. They generally lived in Africa, specifically Eastern and Southern. They lived 2.4 to 1.4 million years ago. Paleoanthropologists have been unable to determine ...

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It took a while for humans to climb the food chain. By Andrew Paul Published Sep 23, 2025 12:11 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? If H. habilis really had begun the shift towards eating meat, they argue, the only ...