Chinese scientists obtain the first molecular evidence of interbreeding between our ancestor ‘Homo erectus’ and the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Although only one species of hominin (a tribe of the subfamily Homininae) exists on the planet today—good ...

What is a humanoid? It is something that has a human-like appearance, therefore, a head, torso, arms, legs, thus resembling the general structure of human but made up of different materials and ...

NOVA's Human, an ambitious five-part series produced in collaboration with BBC Studios Science Unit, takes viewers on a journey to discover the origins of our species. Katrina joined GBH in 2023. She ...

Dr. Martin's team is the first to have challenged the species attribution of Little Foot since it was unveiled in 2017. "Our findings challenge the current classification of Little Foot and highlight ...

A recent discovery at Lake Turkana in Kenya has scientists thinking there may have been two ancestral human species — or hominins — coexisting together. Thanks to a patch of wet silt that was buried ...