The discovery reveals aspects of hominin migration and evolution farther ... but recognizes similarities with the more well-known hominid group, though the team cannot conclusively assign it ...

This extinct hominin species, which is part of the Homo family tree ... "There I saw something I thought I would never see in my entire career, there was a clearly primitive hominid just lying there ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long ...

The oldest hominin facial bones discovered in western ... more than one human species lived in Europe, and that the first hominid to inhabit Western Europe was not Homo antecessor as we previously ...

A fossilised left leg unearthed in South Africa belongs to one of the smallest adult hominins ever discovered – smaller even than the so-called “hobbit”, Homo floresiensis. Receive a weekly ...

Frontal view of the virtual reconstruction of the hominid's midface. However, Pink does not exactly match known Homo erectus fossils. Researchers have therefore classified it as Homo affinis erectus, ...

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Ancient hominins may have used naturally occurring volcanic rock spheres as tools for over a million years. These basalt spheres, found at Pleistocene sites in ...