When paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovered the 1.8 million-year-old Homo habilis in 1964, it was thought to be our first human ancestor. Because of its close proximity to stone tools, Homo ...
An ancient member of the human family has gotten a digital facelift, and the new mug looks more ape-like than scientists previously thought. The new reconstruction suggests the large brains and ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Rice University (THE CONVERSATION) Almost 2 million years ...
New fossils from the dawn of the human lineage suggest our ancestors may have lived alongside a diversity of extinct human species, researchers say. Although modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the only ...
Darren Curnoe receives funding from the Australian Research Council. New fossils described in the journal Nature this week seem to close the door on a controversy that has raged for 40 years. They ...
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Researchers have traditionally used differences among fossilized remains of ancient humans to define separate species among the earliest members ...
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