O ne of the most important controversies about human evolution and expansion is when and by what route the first hominids arrived in Europe from the African continent. Now, geological dating ...

The first human-like traits to appear in the hominin fossil record are bipedal walking and smaller, blunt canines.

and the first migration of hominids outside Africa. The Nariokotome boy and his kind represent the beginning of a new phase of human prehistory.

It’s possible, though, that Danuvius independently evolved a form of upright walking on tree branches that had nothing to do with the appearance of a two-legged gait in hominids, says DeSilva ...

(Early hominids, such as the Australopithecines, grew at a faster rate than modern humans.) This fossilized skull was the first Autralopithecus specimen. With a brain larger than a chimp's but ...

Strangely, only two of these were then passed onto Neanderthals when small pioneering groups of ancient African humans first mated with these hominids in Eurasia around 350,000 years ago.