A. Homo ergaster evidence. Murzuch (Libia), Acheulean biface. B. Homo neanderthalensis evidence. 1: Cavallo Cave (Apulia, Italy), limestone block engraved with a group of lines that creates a surface ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

Digging deeper into Asia's past. Decades ago, the story of Asia seemed far more straightforward, if incomplete. Paleoanthropologists knew that archaic hominins such as Homo erectus ventured over ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) appear to have arrived on the island by about 46,000 years ago, and a possible extension of the hobbits’ presence on Flores suggests that they might have encountered ...

This collection of viewable hominin fossil 3D models was produced by the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program by 3D scanning casts and other replicas which are now on display in the Hall of Human ...