One of the oldest examples comes from Homo erectus, who 1.7 million years ago made symmetrical stone tools, such as Acheulean bifaces. These tools required advanced mental planning, so a basic ...

Neanderthals and Denisovans survived for half a million years; Homo erectus lasted nearly two million years. At the rate we’re going, how successful will we look in 2,000 years, much less a million?

Homo Erectus And Neanderthals May Have Been The First Humans To Do Math Extinct humans developed advanced geometric skills 1.7 million years ago. Benjamin Taub. Benjamin Taub.

The Last Neanderthal 06/02/2025 June 2, 2025. Did Homo sapiens and Neanderthals share the same habitat for a long period of time? Excavations by a French research team at the Mandrin Cave suggest ...

Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate. This is largely because we still lack clear answers to ...

Ancient DNA reveals new twists in Neanderthal migration. Genetic surprises pulled from 120,000-year-old bones showcase the nuanced history of this close human relative.

DNA and protein analysis of a 146,000-year-old skull shows for the first time what the face of this species, which occupied ...

The team’s method estimated that the life expectancy for Neanderthals was 37.8 years, and the same for another extinct member of the Homo family tree: Homo denisova, better known as the Denisovans.

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

After Homo sapiens evolved from the African descendants of H. erectus, humans began exploring the rest of the world, starting this new journey at least 200,000 years ago.