For decades, scientists have been learning more about the diets of early hominins, particularly their reliance on plants. Yet ...

2003). The similarities between the living African apes were thought to have been inherited from a common ancestor (=primitive features), implying that the earliest hominins and our last common ...

This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of hominins, but also further explores the factors that confound systematics in human evolution. It is commonly understood that taxonomy should ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. So, volcanoes are scary. I have vivid memories of ...

Researchers believe these items may have belonged to individuals who were making stone tools. The discovery included the presence of ancient hominins dating back two million years. The find puts ...

“Did humans evolve like a constantly branching tree? A lot of people think so,” said Milford Wolpoff, a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, who was not involved in the study. “But ...

Romania is making strides in the archaeological world after new evidence confirmed the presence of ancient hominins in the country dating back two million years. The discovery was made at the Valea ...

The dating of stone tools in China puts members of the Homo genus there more than 2 million years ago. Shawna was an editor at The Scientist from 2017 through 2022. She holds a bachelor's degree in ...

Previously thought to be an exclusively human skill, knowing when a friend could use a clue appears to be a talent we share with our primate cousins.

The findings cast new light on the behavior of Paleolithic hominins, providing important new insights into the development of abstract thinking and cultural complexity in this period. The ...

Meanwhile on land, Asian and African apes diverged and then, several million years later, hominins split from their closest African ape ancestors, the chimpanzees. Adapted to two-footed walking ...

Erella Hovers (Hebrew University) and Dr. Eduardo Paixão (ICArEHB, University of Algarve), has shed new light on the behavioral complexity of Paleolithic hominins. Published in Archaeological and ...