Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...
The team calculated that the mosquitos likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some 2.9 to 1.6 million years ago. This overlaps with the same period in which ...
Findings suggest human ancestors spread across Asia earlier, faster and possibly more successfully than commonly believed ...
Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...
Fossils dredged from the Madura Strait in Indonesia reveal Homo erectus remains dating to around 140,000 years ago. The discovery shows that these early humans once inhabited the now-submerged Sunda ...
In 2021, scientists made a breakthrough when they classified a 140,000-year-old skull from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, as ...
Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date ...
Ancient humans arrived in East Asia hundreds of thousands of years earlier than thought - Findings suggest human ancestors spread across Asia earlier, faster and possibly more successfully than common ...
New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.” ...
The size of this fossil is very small compared to the common sea cow. Researchers used new technology to re-measure this ...
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What are ghost lineages? Ancient ancestors hiding in modern human DNA whose fossils were never found
Our DNA reveals extinct "ghost lineages" that shaped human evolution, painting a complex, "braided stream" of history rather than a simple progression. These ancient groups, leaving no fossils, ...
A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African prehistory. The remains come from Thomas Quarry I, and a new analysis pins them ...
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