Humans, Homo sapiens, have unique features compared with other closely related hominin species and primates, including the ...

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

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 ...

The earliest proposed Homo sapiens, a 300,000-year-old skull from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, does not show this rounded, high back. The latest evidence was uncovered at the site of Apidima Cave in ...

His skull suggests he was powerfully built and ... Their analysis suggests that it is more closely related to Homo sapiens than it is to Neanderthals. They have assigned the specimen to a new ...

LB1's skull.) After LB1's discovery, some scientists had suggested that the hobbit was really a modern human, just a small one. But when Falk's team measured the brains of LB1 and Homo sapiens ...

A study published today in the journal Nature reveals that the skull, which was originally discovered in Greece in the 1970s, belonged to a member of an early population of Homo sapiens and is ...

The brain was enclosed in a skull that was more rounded than H. erectus'. Fossil remains of archaic Homo sapiens have been found in Africa and Europe. Averaging five and a half feet in height and ...