Scientists have recently reconstructed one of the skulls, revealing potential ties between the archaic humans, the Dragon Man lineage, and Homo sapiens. Dragon Man, or Homo longi, is an extinct ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

Gurche then overlaid muscle on to the face by following markings on the skull left behind from chewing, revealing the first ...

In the 1930s, 12 Homo erectus skull caps and two lower leg bones were ... a stooping chimp-like creature gradually morphs into Homo sapiens, apparently the apex of evolution.

Homo sapiens sapiens. The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the century. The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925. Found in South Africa, the skull ...

Over a million years ago, Homo erectus demonstrated remarkable adaptability by thriving in harsh desert environments, ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Ancient artifacts such as stone tools and fossils, including ancient human skulls and teeth ... Africa model posits that all living humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) descend from a population that ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split ... From the six- to seven-million-year-old Sahelanthropus tchadensis skull found in Chad, we know ...

Homo sapiens evolved through a series of significant ... 24 of which are associated with brain functions and skull morphology. These genetic changes emerged soon after the divergence and are ...

"Our skulls tend to be high and rounded ... so maybe grandmothers and great grandparents were a rarity compared with Homo ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to ...