Its unusual structure challenges long-standing ideas about human evolution, hinting at a more diverse array of early Asian hominids than previously thought. Hidden within a cave system in ...

The challenge of studying early hominids is that specimens from that ... The constrained, more recent timeline "also means that any evidence of H. sapiens fossils or archaeology older than 50,000 ...

But these timelines do not account for this new discovery ... a style of tool that's known to have been carried out of Africa by early hominids. But more recent tools, which range in age from ...

The skulls' most striking features, compared with other early hominids, were related to chewing, including a forward projecting jaw and teeth. Arsuaga suggests the individuals may have used their ...

Other early hominids likewise preferred C3 plants, but also included at least some C4 vegetation in their diet. Finally, the researchers scraped off some of the dental plaque from two teeth of one ...

New assessments by researchers using the latest high-tech tools to study the diets of early hominids are challenging long-held assumptions about what our ancestors ate. New assessments by ...

A turning point in language development occurred in the Miocene Era. Scientists have discovered what may have prompted early human ancestors to begin developing speech and language. As the ...

“I think we are facing a remarkable discovery here, of hominids— non-humans with brains a third the size of living humans, slightly larger than chimpanzee, that we are attributing to burying ...