Rare skeletons up to 30,000 years old reveal when ancient humans went through puberty New research on the lives of Ice Age teenagers reveals that they experienced puberty in ways remarkably similar to adolescents today. Published in the Journal of Human…
Unusual 300,000-Year-Old Jawbone May Belong To An Unknown Vanished Human Lineage Anthropologists in China have unearthed fragments of a lower jaw that may have belonged to an unknown human lineage. The bone, which is around 300,000 years old, belonged to a young…
Neanderthals Inherited At Least 6% Of Their Genome From A Now-Extinct Lineage Of Early Modern Humans Modern humans migrated to Eurasia 75,000 years ago, where they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals. A new study published in the journal Current Biology shows that…
Early humans ‘were intentionally crafting stone balls 1.4 million years ago Around 1.4 million years ago, early human relatives crafted enigmatic stone “spheroids” in the Middle East in deliberate attempts to make perfect spheres, a new study finds. The finding…
Ancient Skull Discovery in China Points to Possible New Species of Human Scientists believe they may have identified a new species of human after finding an ancient skull that belonged to a child who lived up to 300,000 years ago.…
Unveiling the Enigma: Reconstructing the Appearance of Our Last Common Ancestor with Apes The closest living relatives of humans are the apes such as chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and gibbons. We all had the same common ancestor that lived during the…
Newly discovered stone tools drag dawn of Greek archaeology back by a quarter-million years Deep in an open coal mine in southern Greece, researchers have discovered the antiquities-rich country’s oldest archaeological site, which dates to 700,000 years ago and is…
Unlocking Human Ancestry: Surprising Insights from the Broken Hill Skull and Homo Heidelbergensis The evolution of our species is a fascinating and complicated subject. Scientists often discuss our long-gone relatives, the Neanderthals, and some studies attempt to unravel the truth…
700,000-Year-Old human Skull Found In Greece Completely Shatters ‘Out Of Africa Theory’ Nature has always been a random architect. Entering Petralona Cave, which was formed in the limestone of Katsika Hill about a million years ago, makes this very clear.…
3,000-Year-Old Bone in Southeastern Alaska Reveals Prehistoric Woman’s Genetic Connection to Native American People A 3,000-year-old bone unearthed from a cave in southeastern Alaska is not from a bear, as originally thought, but from one of our own — a…