We modeled how early human ancestors ran—and found they were surprisingly slow
Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...
1.4-Million-Year-Old Skull Fragments Linked to Mystery Human Ancestor
The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...
Oldest Known Bone Tools Challenge Our Understanding of Human Evolution
The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...
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‘Dietary fingerprints’ show our early ancestors dined mostly on plant-based foods
For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains. This carnivorous origin story has become so entrenched that few questioned it: our ...
Major archaeology breakthrough as scientists uncover human bones from 1.4m years ago
It marks the first time significant remains older than 1 million years old have been discovered in Western Europe.