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 ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.

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

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 ...

For a long time, tool technology was seen as a uniquely human trait, associated with the genus ‘Homo’. Now we know tools go ...

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

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

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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 ...

The world is witnessing an entirely different America. The resulting sights and sounds that assault our senses engender scorn and hatred. The US has dramatically lost copious amounts of goodwill. All ...