Homo naledi, an extinct relative of modern humans whose brain was one-third the size of ours, buried their dead and engraved ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

This morphology is more reminiscent of Homo erectus, a human ancestor that left Africa around 1.8 million years ago. Frontal view of the virtual reconstruction of the hominid's midface. However, Pink ...

However, scientist Ron Clarke pushed for its reconstruction ... These skulls belong to Homo erectus, but they are much smaller than typical Homo erectus fossils, leading scientists to classify ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

Instead, he resembles Homo erectus, a far more ancient human species which emerged in Africa two million years ago and was the first to walk on two legs like a modern human. The researchers believe ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe, potentially re-writing the story of human evolution.

This is the endurance running hypothesis. The emergence of this behaviour is thought to coincide with more modern anatomy, such as seen in Homo erectus, who lived from around 2 million years ago to ...

Bone fragments discovered in Spanish cave are putting a face to the earliest ancient humans to arrive in Western Europe, more than a million years ago.

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old.

Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest ...