A study from researchers connected to the University of Tubingen and the University of Cape Town looked at hybridization in ...
Scientists have finally come face-to-face with an ancient human ancestor called Little Foot. A new digital reconstruction reveals the visage of one of our oldest close human relatives, researchers ...
A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...
Archaeologists have found a wealth of artifacts and monuments that have fundamentally altered how we perceive and understand ...
For most of the 20th century, the model of human origins was a tree: with the trunk dividing into branches, and then twigs. Each species of human relative (hominin) was a neat, single branch. As an ...
Ancient DNA from Shimao reveals local origins, broad prehistoric connections, a patrilineal social structure, and ...