Homo
New, big-headed archaic humans discovered: Who is Homo juluensis?
Researchers have identified a new species of ancient humans, which they have named Homo juluensis, meaning “big head,” based partly…
Read More »1.5 million-year-old footprints reveal our Homo erectus ancestors lived with a 2nd proto-human species
In a fossil first, researchers have announced the discovery of 1.5 million-year-old footprints that prove two different pre-human species coexisted…
Read More »150,000-year-old rock-shelter in Tajikistan found on ‘key route for human expansion’ used by Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans
Along a stream in Tajikistan, archaeologists have discovered a rock-shelter that may have been a migration site for Neanderthals, Denisovans…
Read More »Smallest arm bone in human fossil record sheds light on the dawn of Homo floresiensis
A paper out today in Nature Communications reports the discovery of extremely rare early human fossils from the Indonesian island…
Read More »Why did Homo sapiens outlast all other human species?
Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives of the human family tree, but we’re the last sentence in…
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