Homo floresiensis was one of the last human species to go extinct, but also one of the most different from Homo sapiens. As far as we know, Homo floresiensis lived exclusively on the Indonesian ...

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

floresiensis, H. luzonensis, H. longi, and H. juluensis in Asia and Nesher Ramla Homo in the Levant. Given what we know from historical events that chronicle human population exchanges through ...

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg ...

Both the Neanderthals and Denisovans interbred with Homo sapiens around 50,000 years ago. While Neanderthal DNA accounts for around 2 percent of the genome of non-African modern humans ...

floresiensis, H. luzonensis, H. longi, and H. juluensis in Asia and Nesher Ramla Homo in the Levant. Given what we know from historical events that chronicle human population exchanges through time, ...

2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small ...