The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” That was Karl Marx, but it could as easily have ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...

Homo sapiens has existed for at least 300,000 years, but its exact origin is still unknown. Some theories say that it evolved in East Africa about 50,000 years ago and expanded southwards, but now a ...

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Upcoming Doctor Who spin-off The War Between The Land And The Sea will introduce a new name for the series' classic Sea Devil villains — who prefer to be called "Homo Aqua." Speaking to Radio Times ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...

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For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

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For decades, Homo habilis has been depicted as one of the first human species to ascend to the top of the food chain, shifting from prey to predator. Early hominins are generally thought to have ...

In this video I am going to tell you all about Homo Habilis, the very first species in the Homo genus, the origin of all of us. But was habilis a human species or should they actually be placed in the ...