The National Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Human Origins vastly distorts the scientific evidence on human evolution, ...

According to new CT scans and models, parts of the 140,000-year-old skull resemble those of modern humans, while the jaw appears to be more similar to those of our extinct relatives ...

Ancient proteins reveal new insights into Paranthropus robustus fossilsFossil protein analysis shows both sexes and ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and was built for heavy ...

A new study reveals that ancient Homo sapiens possessed a unique adaptability, thriving in diverse and challenging environments across Africa before their major dispersal around 50,000 years ago ...

The Omo collection includes teeth attributed to Paranthropus, Australopithecus and Homo, the three most recent and well-known hominin genera.

These Homo sapiens – nomadic hunter-gatherers who populated Western Europe between 11,000 and 35,000 years ago – carry with them a leather rucksack containing objects of value: mostly flint cores and ...

The Homo genus began approximately 2.3 million years ago with Homo Habilis, the first species in this lineage, which led to modern humans, Homo sapiens sapiens. Fossils of Homo Habilis were found ...

Australopithecus sediba -- a small hominin species that lived about 2 million years ago -- had a mix of ape-like and human-like features, while Homo naledi -- a recently-discovered hominin species ...

These Homo sapiens – nomadic hunter-gatherers who populated Western Europe between 11,000 and 35,000 years ago – carry with them a leather rucksack containing objects of value: mostly flint ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the magnetic North Pole over Europe about 41,000 years ago, new University of ...