Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and gorilla-like traits in the ...

A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than ...

Many paleoanthropologists view Homo ergaster, meaning "working man," as a turning point in our evolutionary story. That's ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

An enzyme in the blue blood has been key to testing vaccines since the 1980s, raising concerns for the crabs’ population. But ...

Homo ergaster evolved during an accelerated period of global cooling and drying that cleared more and more tropical rainforest from Africa and created a desert in the northern half of the continent.

The last known members of the Homo erectus species were killed in a "mass death" event between 117,000 and 108,000 ago, scientists have said. By re-analyzing remains first discovered almost a century ...

A transitional fossil in a period we have little on “One of paleoanthropology’s main research goals has been to fiddle the temporal and evolutionary gap between these early and later phenomena,” ...

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