We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

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History isn’t just written in books — it’s buried in the artifacts we’ve lost. Across centuries, priceless treasures, sacred ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

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For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden ...

The role of megafaunal exploitation in early human evolution remains debated. Occasional use of large carcasses by early hominins has been considered by some as opportunistic, possibly a fallback ...

Decades after the discovery of the Oldowan toolkit, we’re still waiting for the species responsible to put their hand up.