A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human from all other human lineages and one that it passed on to modern humans via ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

New dating of volcanic ash layers at the Omo Kibish site in Ethiopia suggests that the Homo sapiens fossils found there are at least 230,000 years old, pushing them back by roughly 35,000 years from ...