Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

A 210,000-year-old skull from Greece’s Apidima Cave reveals the earliest known Homo sapiens outside Africa, pushing back the ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

That range spans three different human ancestors: Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, and early Homo sapiens. “This is possibly the first evidence of the use of natural shapes for varied activities,” ...

Someone brought them. That someone, it now seems, was our ancestors. Possibly Homo erectus, one of the first species to walk upright, to wield fire, and to migrate across continents.

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short — and ended up as a leopard's lunch.

Piecing together the story of Europe's earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce. On March 12, researchers announced thediscovery of a new fossil from the ...

Early fossils from Asia are also more numerous and more complete, while their European counterparts are limited to an isolated tooth, a fragment of jaw and a partial skull cap. The evidence of ...

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral ...

Based on the fossil record, we know that species like Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived in Africa (and beyond) during the period in question, making them possible candidates for these ...