One of the defining features of H. ergaster is the size of its brain, which averaged around 850 cubic centimeters. That is ...

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

A study of a million-year-old skull from China has potentially rewritten the early chapter of human evolution.

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

Uranium dating places the age of the Petralona skull at 300,000 years, revealing a human lineage distinct from Neanderthals ...

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools.

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest ...

The prehistoric peopling of Europe has long been documented as occurring in waves from the western edge of Eurasia.

Homo habilis, discovered in East Africa, has long been called “the handy man” for its association with early stone tools. But scientists now question whether it truly deserves the title of first human ...

Anthropologists have long sought to pin down the exact location of the proverbial “Garden of Eden” — the region of our planet where the earliest Homo sapiens emerged. Over the last two decades, a ...

If you bumped into a Homo erectus in the street you might not recognize them as being very different from you. You'd see a certain "human-ness" in the stance, and their size and shape might be similar ...