Neanderthals, Denisovans, Homo erectus have all vanished, leaving just Homo sapiens. Us. And it looks like we humans may ...

In 1949, a fossil jaw was discovered in a cave and has now been identified as belonging to a previously unknown human ...

Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

In the early days of human history — over 300,000 years ago — Homo sapiens shared the Earth with several other human species, which Kennedy aptly compares to the different races of Middle-earth in the ...

The most striking characteristic of this previously unknown human ancestor? An extremely large brain that’s bigger than that of our species, Homo sapiens, the only surviving hominin. The feature is ...

Neanderthal blood types may have made them ill-equipped to deal with infectious diseases.

Was blood a factor in the demise of the Neanderthals? New research is showing that Homo sapiens underwent huge changes in their blood groups after leaving Africa, between 70,000 and 45,000 years ago, ...

An extremely large brain that’s bigger than that of our species, Homo sapiens, the only surviving hominin. The feature is reflected in the proposed name for the species, revealed by Bae and Wu ...

The conventional belief held that only Homo sapiens could survive in these harsh ecosystems in the long term, with earlier hominins thought to be restricted to more limited ecological ranges.

As stated by researchers, “Homo erectus serves as a prime example of how early humans leveraged their environment for survival, paving the way for the evolution of modern humans.” They developed ...

They also had bigger brains than earlier species, though not quite as large as the brains of today’s humans, Homo sapiens. H. erectus persisted for more than 1.5 million years before going ...