“The hand shows it could form precision grips similar to ours, while also retaining powerful grasping capabilities more like ...

A Skull at the Crossroads When initially found, Yunxian 2 was presumed to be an early human ancestor like Homo erectus, the lineage that is well known for migrating out of Africa and walking on two ...

Scientists have reexamined a badly crushed skull discovered back in 1990 in Hubei Province, China — known as Yunxian 2 — and say its new reconstruction could force us to rethink long-accepted ideas ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

A conversation with the legendary evolutionary thinker and archaeologist, Eudald Carbonell. By Jan Ritch-Frel and Deborah ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

New fossils from Indonesia, including the smallest humerus ever found from an adult hominin, belonged to the tiny Homo floresiensis species, researchers said. By Carl Zimmer A new study describes ...

Our early human ancestors might have been more adaptable than previously thought: New research suggests Homo erectus was able to survive—and even thrive—after its home in East Africa shriveled up and ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans live ...

Its face juts forward like that of Homo erectus but less, with broad cheekbones and ... and it supports the case for Asia being a main stage of human evolution, rather than just Africa and Europe. To ...

When Homo sapiens first emerged in Africa some 300,000 years ago, we did not roam the planet alone. It's an origin story that Ella Al-Shamahi, a British Arab paleoanthropologist, presenter and ...