The researchers from the University of New England in Australia and the East Tennessee State University in the United States found that biting with high force risked damaging jaw joints, indicating ...

What does that overlap mean for the linear view of human evolution? It means Homo erectus and Homo habilis are really sister species, with a common ancestor older than 2 million years. We are ...

A rare Denisovan jawbone found off Taiwan confirms these ancient human relatives once lived across much of Asia.

The enlightened truth of the role of fire in human evolution ... suggests that the controlled use of fire began with Homo erectus, who emerged nearly two million years ago. For those early ...

A recent study from Cambridge University has revealed new insights into human evolution, casting doubt on the long ... species that could have contributed to the ancestral lineages: Homo erectus and ...

A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 14, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating ...

Understanding human evolution often involves looking closely at our DNA. Yet obtaining ancient DNA from fossils older than 300,000 years—especially from Africa—is incredibly challenging.

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...

What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that may have shaped the course of human evolution ... time of the Laschamps excursion, Homo sapiens and Neanderthals coexisted ...