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17-Million-Year-Old Ape Fossil in Egypt Could Change What We Know About Human Origins

Researchers have identified a previously unknown fossil ape from Egypt that could alter long-held ideas about the origins of modern apes. The evolutionary story of apes has long co...

Genomes of Europe’s Last Neanderthals Analyzed

LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a statement released by Leiden University, Marie Soressi of Leiden University […] The post Genomes of Europe’s Last Neanderthals Analyzed appea...

Not Out of Context: Comments on Hawks et al. (2000)

The lead author is John Hawks, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who has a popular blog on paleoanthropology. Source

Physicist Overstates the “Gradual” Nature of Human Origins in the Fossil Record

We’ve gone back and forth with Dr. Barr many times in the past. Mainstream paleoanthropologists acknowledge that the origin of humans is sudden and abrupt. Source

Let’s Catch Up with the Neanderthals!

Remember the famous Neanderthal brain that was supposed to be inferior to the modern one, rendering them the big, dumb brutes of legend? Source

Bigger Brains, Smaller Faces: Rethinking Human Evolution

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study challenges established views on human skull evolution. Researchers suggest that brain growth and the reduction of the face and jaw may b...

Bigger Human Bodies Evolved Late, Study of Fossils Finds

New PNAS research on 386 fossils shows human body size jumped later within the genus Homo rather than growing steadily across the whole family tree

146,000-Year-Old Discovery Rewrites the Story of Human Creativity

Crystals preserved inside a prehistoric bone led scientists to revise the estimated age of the archaeological site, suggesting that its stone tools were crafted during a severe ice...

Neanderthals and Modern Humans May Have Shared a Shell-Collecting Tradition in Türkiye for 20,000 Years

Learn how shells found in a Turkish cave may show Neanderthals and modern humans shared culture, tools, and symbolic habits.

Periodontal Disease May Have Influenced Human Evolution

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA—According to a statement released by the University of the Witwatersrand, gum disease […] The post Periodontal Disease May Have Influenced Human Evolutio...

250,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Teeth Analyzed

BURGOS, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Spanish National Research Center for Human Evolution […] The post 250,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Teeth Analyzed appeared first...

Homo Naledi Fossil In Rising Star Cave Could Represent First Gender-Specific Burials By A Nonhuman Species

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have extracted and analyzed the first-ever ancient proteins from the fossils of Homo naledi, revealing a potential all-female burial site...

It Was Technology, Not the Human Mind, that Advanced

At one time, we were encouraged to interpret ancient humans as a long, slow, Darwinian ascent of man. But maybe that didn’t really happen. Source

Oldest evidence of human cremation discovered: Burned 100,000-year-old Homo sapiens bones found in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift

Ancient tooth proteins suggest Homo erectus may have left a genetic legacy in people today

For most of the 20th century, the model of human origins was a tree: with the trunk dividing into branches, and then twigs. Each species of human relative (hominin) was a neat, sin...

Jaw Wound in 90,000-Year-Old Fossil Points to Violence Among Modern Humans

BURGOS, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Spanish National Research Centre for Human Evolution […] The post Jaw Wound in 90,000-Year-Old Fossil Points to Violence Amon...

Ancient human ancestors may have first used fire 1.79 million years ago

A new method that detects whether bones have been burned reveals Homo erectus brought fires into caves far earlier than previous evidence had suggested

New Study Rewrites the Story of How Humans Got Bigger

Human body size evolution was shaped by both gradual change and a major later growth spurt within Homo. When did our ancestors become human-sized? Scientists have debated for decad...

New theory of smallest human: Not a hunter, but eater of lizard leftovers

Strange 'hobbits' of Indonesia didn't hunt elephants after all, or cook them, says new paper, supporting theory of deeply archaic ancestry. How many hominins left Africa?

Human Evolution Quote: Grok, Is This True?

People are always welcome to change their views in response to what they feel is convincing new evidence. Source

Human in Israel smashed in the face with a rock 100,000 years ago

The dual nature of humanity may have emerged much earlier than thought, going by the survival of a person slammed in the jaw in Qafzeh Cave, and some pretty sick children

Paper: Neanderthal Babies Developed Like Modern Humans

Don’t miss the words of Professor Uthmeier: “both human forms.” What he’s saying is that both Neanderthals and modern humans were “human forms.” Source

Flores Hobbits' eating habits offer clues about their evolutionary past

If Homo floresiensis wasn't a fire-using hunter, its origins could be different than we thought.

Genetic Material Recovered from 300,000-Year-Old Homo naledi Teeth

LEIPZIG, GERMANY—Live Science reports that proteomic analysis of 20 Homo naledi teeth determined that all […] The post Genetic Material Recovered from 300,000-Year-Old Homo naledi...