After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

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A recent archaeological discovery in China is shaking the foundations of human history, challenging long-held beliefs about ...

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Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

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Our robust Paranthropus cousins thrived in Africa for a million and a half years, making stone tools and sharing the ...

Human Evolution Never-before-seen cousin of Lucy might have lived at the same site as the oldest known human species, new study suggests Human Evolution Ancient Hobbits slowed down growth during ...

March 12 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary ...

For the first time, a research team from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and the Schöningen Research Center have reconstructed the genomes ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...