Neanderthal milk teeth show their babies were raised and weaned similar to us
Tree ring-like growth lines in baby Neanderthal teeth suggest they were first weaned at around 6 months of age.
Tree ring-like growth lines in baby Neanderthal teeth suggest they were first weaned at around 6 months of age.
Whenever distinct groups of humans and their ancestors overlapped in space and time, interbreeding was just around the corner.
These were the hi-tech gadgets of the Upper Paleolithic
A new lineage of humans has been identified in the DNA of certain African populations. But no one knows what ...
Was this an isolated individual, or part of an earlier wave of human migration?
The humans had to become very efficient in order to survive.
We're taking you for a ride through evolutionary memory lane, carefully listing the members of our long family tree.
A tiny fingerbone is re-writing the story of human dispersal out of Africa.
Cheeky new details concerning the interbreeding between Neanderthals and our own species.
Our ancestors interbred both with Neanderthals and Denisovans.
A 200,000-year-old human jawbone found in a cave in Israel is rewriting history.
A lot has changed in 30.000 years.
Yet another sign that the two species from the same Homo genus were very similar to one another.
Dibs on the last slice.
The most comprehensive bone analysis of its kind shows Homo floresiensis didn't share important features with Homo erectus.
No one knows who the direct ancestor of Neanderthals is but this skull might help shed light.
The fact that the greatest biodiversity of large mammals we know of today is recorded in Africa is a legacy ...
A broken jaw unearthed in Ethiopia pushes back the origin of the homo linage - of which homo sapiens sapiens ...
A partial skull fragment found in Kenya seems to indicate that early humans were much more diverse than previously thought. ...
After analyzing key hand bone fragments from fossil records, a team of anthropologists conclude that pre-homo human ancestral species, such ...