It has also been suggested that the Dmanisi hominids may belong to Homo ergaster, although, like H. georgicus, there is some ...

About 1.8 million years ago, a boy died. An abcessed tooth suggests an infection may have killed him, although the cause is not certain. His bones were fossilized, and they lay undetected until ...

In the 8 million years or so since the earliest ancestors of humans diverged from the apes, at least a dozen humanlike species, called hominids, have lived on Earth. And this list is getting longer.

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

The history of where humans derived from has been a topic that has compelled experts for years. While the modern day human is usually linked to homo sapiens, scientists have discovered another ...

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ...

The 11.6-million-year-old bones still don’t tell us how members of the genus Homo became bipeds Tree-dwelling apes in Europe strode upright around 5 million years before members of the human ...

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ergaster, a direct ancestor of modern people. Fossils of Paranthropus ...