Yet the researchers don’t stop there, and go on to point out that the inner ear structure of some Homo erectus populations ...

The origin story of Homo floresiensis, an oddball member of the human family that lived as recently as 60,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Flores, is coming into focus. With its miniature ...

For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...

A collection of jawbones and vertebrae from Casablanca reveals details about a possible ancestor of Homo sapiens, ...

A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially believed to belong to Homo erectus, is now thought to be part of the Asian longi clade, closely linked to the Denisovans, which ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

Well if there's one thing genomic analysis has taught us, it's that no hominid is ever really gone. Seriously though. We've got, what, two Denisovan sites and there is already evidence for possible ...