The emergence of artistic expression, abstract thought, and symbolic behavior may have occurred much earlier in human history ...

They were skilled, organised hunters, having mastered primitive tools and weapons similar to ... a very substantial difference between modern Homo sapiens, Neanderthal and this new proposed ...

Step back in time, folks, and imagine a world of primitive cave dwellers, clad in animal skins, and struggling to … Continue ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

ur ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first ...

Previous research has frequently concluded that only Homo sapiens were able to adapt to ... and developing specialized stone tools such as scrapers and notched tools (known as denticulates ...

As a paleontologist, I traveled in May 2023 to the Indonesian islands of the Riau Archipelago, just south of Singapore, as part of an ongoing quest for evidence of Homo erectus, one of our oldest ...

They also had bigger brains than earlier species, though not quite as large as the brains of today’s humans, Homo sapiens ... as well as stone tools and fossilized grains of pollen.