Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than you may realize.

Further evidence obtained from the fossils would suggest Pink and his people inhabited ... suggests that this region was a key point in the evolutionary history of the genus Homo,” paleontologist and ...

Over the years, discoveries of the remains of ancient humans different to the Homo sapiens genus have slowly picked apart the ...

A fossilised left leg unearthed in South Africa belongs to one of the smallest adult hominins ever discovered – smaller even than the so-called “hobbit”, Homo floresiensis. Receive a weekly ...

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia ... genetic data retrieved from ancient human fossils can be a powerful tool to study ...

These fossils, dated to around 900,000 years ago ... a term which recognized its belonging to the genus Homo, but also accepted our inability to refine it further with the evidence available ...

Not knowing exactly when regular meat consumption became part of our ancestors’ diets is a gap in our understanding of human ...

What we do know is that by the time our genus, Homo, emerged over two million years ... We've also found fossil bones with cut marks that indicate butchering. But that doesn't explain when and ...