How did the earliest members of the modern human species get here? Who did we evolve from? How did we live? Where did we live ...

Our genus, Homo, emerged at least 2.8 million years ago, while our species, Homo sapiens, dates back to at least 300,000 years ago. So early Homo species overlapped with Paranthropus. Until now ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

Paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey, the granddaughter of Mary and Louis Leakey, who first determined that early humans evolved ...

Drew Forrest uses one of South Africa’s most important hominid discoveries to debate the paradoxes and contradictions ...

However, scientists are certain that Homo Naledi is part of the genus Homo along with us human beings. The discovery was announced on Thursday by the University of the Witwatersrand, the National ...

A study suggests that Homo sapiens may have benefited from the use of ochre and tailored clothing during a period of increased UV light 41,000 years ago, during the Laschamps excursion.

According to the new Science study, adaptation played a key role in the geographic expansion of our genus Homo. (Image credit: Elke Zeller. This work includes adapted images from HCRP-UR501 and ...

“We got such an amazing, complete cranium, and it provided very important information for us to understand the evolution of Homo as a genus,” says Xijun Ni, a paleoanthropologist at the Chinese ...

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg belonging to a strikingly small member of the group raises questions about how ...

He sometimes wonders if, on a planet similar to the Earth, another genus Homo has arisen. An anthropologist considers the possibility in the light of what we know of evolution ...