Footprints found in Koobi Fora, Kenya, reveal Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei coexisted 1.5 million years ago, with ...

Scientists have discovered traces of different human ancestors meeting in Kenya 1.5 million years ago. A new study describes ...

Human children pair fast growth ... and they occupy an evolutionary position between Homo habilis from Africa and later-arising Homo erectus from Africa and Asia. The authors found that some ...

Homo erectus reconstruction that also adds to evidence that humans have been speaking ... Understanding when language began is key to understanding our past. Basic human language 8 times older than ...

afarensis was bipedal and moved more like a human than an ape, giving scientists more clues about human evolution ... Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois discovered the first Homo erectus fossils in ...

Researchers agreed she was from a new species of human-like ape that they named ... to the skull coming from the extinct hominin Homo erectus and was dated to between 770,000 to 230,000 years ...

Innovative Approach Maps Gene Activity in the Living Human Brain Nov. 25, 2024 — A groundbreaking method to profile gene activity in the living human brain has been developed. This innovative ...

Today I’d like you to join me as I continue my father’s work, only this time going back an additional 16 million generations ...

An extended childhood, a hallmark of human development, may have gotten off to an ancient and unusual start. One of the earliest known members of the Homo genus experienced delayed, humanlike ...

No matter where we grasp a branch on the human family tree, whether it's with Neanderthals or Homo erectus Peking and Java Man or ourselves, we can trace the origins back to Africa, which was ...

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...