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.

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

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on record? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Some stone tools found near a river on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that the first hominins had reached the islands by at least 1.04 million years ago. That’s around the same time that ...