Homo erectus was the longest-living human species in history, thriving for nearly 2 million years. From Africa to Asia, they ...

Scientists discover the oldest human face in Western Europe, dating back more than a million years, in a cave in northern ...

Homo erectus. At least one of them created sites now in the archaeological record, where they brought and shared food, and made and used some of the earliest stone tools. The city previously asked a ...

Found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, Homo habilis marked the dawn of the human genus. Known as the “handy man,” this early ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it’s probably closely related to Denisovans. The fossil skull, dubbed Yunxian 2, is one of three ...