A reconstruction of Homo erectus - the first known human to walk fully upright An ancient relative of modern humans survived into comparatively recent times in South East Asia, a new study has ...

It's known as Homo luzonensis, after the site of its discovery on the country's largest island Luzon. Its physical features are a mixture of those found in very ancient human ancestors and in more ...

Homo Monstrosus For 2,000 years most educated men believed that remote areas were inhabited by monstrous races. It was only with the 19th century that it became clear that there was only one ...

Findings such as the fossil "hobbits" in Flores (H. floresiensis) and the enigmatic Homo species from Dmanisi have dramatic implications for human evolution, and the significance of these has yet ...

Both dating issues and fossil anatomy mean that scientists are currently uncertain whether the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans was Homo heidelbergensis, Homo antecessor or ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...

Antón, S.C. Natural history of Homo erectus. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 46, 126-170 (2003). Bellomo, R. V. Methods of determining early hominid behavioral activities associated with the ...

On boats, everyone bangs their heads; in summer, everyone sweats. Scale is what repeatedly came to mind at the opening of the third Homo Faber Biennale at the end of last week. This show, which is on ...