But the next time you squash one of these bloodsuckers, consider this: you are participating in a bitter rivalry that goes back to the time of Homo erectus. It turns out that mosquitoes have been ...
Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date ...
Two fossil skulls discovered in Yunxian, northern China, are now dated to approximately 1.77 million years ago, making them ...
New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.” ...
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 ...
New research dates Homo erectus skulls in China to nearly 1.8 million years ago, making them the oldest hominin fossils in East Asia.
A human skull hung on a cave wall in northern Greece for more than 300,000 years. When a villager spotted it in 1960, ...
Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...
An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved Homo habilis skeleton dating back more than 2 million years. The fossil, ...
Scientists working in a Moroccan quarry have unearthed remarkable hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years, potentially rewriting our understanding of where modern humans, Neanderthals, and ...
Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...
The generally accepted theory of the spread of ancient humans from Africa, where they first evolved, known as “Out of Africa,” holds that a single species, Homo erectus, subsequently migrated to ...