This skull, however, is teaching us more about our own history as a species. Today's modern humans (aka- us) are of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The skull showed a mix of primitive and modern ... advanced technical skills and were on the evolutionary path toward Homo sapiens. The site, only the second in China after Zhoukoudian to yield ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest ... From the six- to seven-million-year-old Sahelanthropus tchadensis ...

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 ...

A skull fossil unearthed in 2015 is one of the ... They were very intelligent, and had evolved towards the stage of Homo sapiens, according to Wu. "The Hualongdong humans were the earliest ancient ...

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

These early Homo sapiens pioneers in Europe faced harsh Ice ... Zlaty kun's remains illustrate a hazardous landscape. "Marks on the skull hint towards predators, possibly hyenas, to have either ...