A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds. The ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in ... finds that the disturbance-demanding plant species oak, hazel and yew were abundant in ...

The new study revealed that the ancient jaw named SK 15 was originally unearthed in 1949 in a South African cave known as ...

Dr. Baumann and his colleagues hypothesize that ancient humans may have hunted and killed more animals than they could consume, thereby increasing the availability of carrion. At first, this may have ...

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...

New research suggests modern humans aren’t the only hominin species capable of “ecological flexibility” Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Our early human ancestors might have been more ...

Some of our species’ earliest ancestors may have ... mammals from Sterkfontein and modern African mammals, the early humans appear to have had a variable diet, but not one rich in mammalian ...

Researchers have believed since the 1960s that the fossil jaw, unearthed at the Swartkrans archaeological site, belonged to an early human species called Homo ergaster. But new X-ray scans of the ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

The term "hominin" refers to members of the human lineage that includes our own species, Homo sapiens ... of abstract or symbolic thought in early hominins. In this view, symbolic behavior ...

A newly classified Paranthropus species, P. capensis, has been identified from a 1.4 million-year-old jawbone.