To craft Oldowan tools, ancient human relatives at Nyayanga transported stones over long distances 600,000 years earlier than previously thought
Hominins had a taste for high-carb plants long before they had the teeth to eat them, providing first evidence of behavioral drive in the human fossil record
Human teeth unearthed at Hualongdong, China, offer fresh insights into hominin diversity in Asia during the late Middle Pleistocene
Interbreeding with Neanderthals may be responsible for modern-day brain condition, Chiari Malformation Type 1
Primate evolution comes into sharper focus – new radioisotopic dating, Argon-Argon (⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar), marks a breakthrough in the study of volcanic deposits
A fossil mandible was discovered on the seabed of the Penghu Channel in Taiwan; it belonged to a male Denisovan
Deciphering how the ancestors of the human species moved around: new insights on locomotion and bipedalism
Homo juluensis lived approximately 300,000 years ago in eastern Asia; it was proposed that the new species include the enigmatic Denisovans
The Neanderthals at Prado Vargas, in the Ojo Guareña Karst Complex, were the first fossil collectors, as they picked Cretaceous marine fossils 46,000 years ago
Fossils and fires: insights into early modern human activity in the jungles of Southeast Asia, from the Tam Pà Ling cave Studying microscopic…
