The first hominids might have evolved in Europe, fossil jaw suggests
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Tag: hominids
Seaweed might have helped determine who we are today
Feasting on seaweeds is good for your brain -- in fact, it may have been crucial.
Oldest evidence of hunting by human ancestors is two million years old
A great evolutionary leap forward in our lineage occurred once our hominid ancestors first began to hunt game to acquire ...
High-quality Neanderthal genome published for open access
German scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have completed the first high-quality draft Neanderthal genome sequence, ...
Early ancestor is only hominid that ate bark
Australopithecus sediba skull That's right. Scientists have found that one of our early ancestors, the Australopithecus sediba, ...
New hominid species that lived alongside the famous Lucy was mostly a climber, not a walker
Africa proves yet again that it's the cradle of the hominid family, and in consequence the human species. Scientists have ...
Human ancestors started walking on two legs to carry more scarce resources, study suggests
One of the biggest anthropological mysteries scientists have been trying to unravel is the long put question of how did ...
Mysterious hominid fossils found in China hint towards a new human species
[caption id="attachment_12169" align="alignnone" width="460" caption="A skull from a specimen, recovered from Longlin cave in China, belonging to the Red Deer ...
Human mating with Neanderthals made our immune system stronger
The mating between Neanderthals and modern homo sapiens has been a highly controversial matter between scientists in the anthropology scene ...
Human tool use pushed back 800,000 years by new discovery
Two bones bearing the scars of tool use, discovered in Dikika, Ethiopia. Credit: Dikika Research Project. ...
