Explore Neanderthal facts, from looks to lifestyle and abilities. These early humans are far more similar to us than once believed. Wanting to understand who we are, where we come from and how we ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...

A million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study.

The mystery of human evolution is nowhere close to being resolved. Every new discovery not only peels off the layer of truth but also brings forth a plethora of questions. The recent fossil discovery ...

Apes' inner ears could help scientists reconstruct the early branches of the human family tree and identify the last common ancestor from which we evolved. Used in both balance and hearing, the bony ...

Ancestors of modern humans who lived 4.4 million years ago were well-suited to swinging in trees and a life in the branches. Hand bones of Ardi, a member of the ancient human relative species ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

Extinct humanoids dubbed ‘hobbits’ because of their short stature may have been one of oldest forms of humans, according to new research. Since the discovery of their remains on the Indonesian island ...

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The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Africa is not the cradle of humankind: that's the claim by a group of scientists who've just published what they describe as evidence of pre-human remains found in Eastern Europe (Greece and Bulgaria) ...