Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million years ago revealing branching evolutionary stories of survival, intermixin ...

Under the right conditions, genetic data retrieved from ancient human fossils can be a powerful tool to study similarities and differences separating human lineages and is complementary to classical ...

Bones from the hominin, dubbed “Pink” after the rock band Pink Floyd, significantly predate those of a species previously ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million ...

Modern-day humans, scientifically known as Homo sapiens, are the sole living members of the genus Homo. Our human ancestors ...

For decades, scientists have been learning more about the diets of early hominins, particularly their reliance on plants. Yet ...

If, right now, you and I could travel back 40,000 years ago and take a sort of census of human Homo genus species, what would we find in different parts of the world? Krause: So if we could travel ...

Objects discovered in Tanzania and dated to 1.5 million years ago help to rewrite human ancestors’ use of carved bone ...

Scientists suggest that this genus lived at the same time as the genus Homo. Even so, they lived in different habitats. The body of a robust Australopithecus was small, but its brain was larger ...