New Fossil Discovery Challenges Assumptions About Early Human Size
Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...
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New Hominid Discovery in China Challenges Out of Africa Theory
A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a ...
Smallest human relative ever found may have been devoured by a leopard 2 million years ago
The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...
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Neanderthals were smarter, stronger, and more human than previously known
More than a century ago, a distorted image of Neanderthals emerged. When a nearly complete skeleton was discovered in 1908 at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, its reconstruction led to lasting ...
Study suggests ancient hominins used unmodified volcanic rock spheres as tools
A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...
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Genetic study reveals hidden chapter in human evolution
Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.