Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

DÉCRYPTAGE - Des nouveaux travaux proposés pour déterminer la date de trois crânes découverts sur le site chinois de Yunxian ...

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 ...

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 ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an unexpectedly primitive appearance. While its braincase fits with classic ...

A 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Gona, Ethiopia reveals new details about the first hominin species to disperse from Africa. Summary: Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a ...

Une étude retrace l’évolution de la préférence pour le sang humain chez des moustiques du groupe Leucosphyrus en Asie du ...

Une équipe de scientifiques a de nouveau daté des fossiles de crânes humains trouvés en Chine. Ils seraient bien plus anciens que ce que l’on pensait jusqu’à présent.

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 ...