Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Prior to this discovery, the site of Dmanisi in the country of Georgia was thought to contain the oldest evidence of hominin activity outside of Africa, dated to roughly 1.8 million years ago.

H. erectus is a now-extinct species of early human that experts say arose some two million years ago in Africa. Walking upright, they had longer legs and shorter arms than previous hominins ...

"We reveal how early humans -- known as hominins -- were able ... says he was able to reconstruct past landscapes to simulate the East African region at the time. "Things like extreme climate ...

More than a million years ago, long before our species Homo sapiens emerged, early humans adapted ... the arid regions of Africa and Eurasia, the study said. Modern humans, 200,000 to 300,000 ...

A study suggests long scalp hair evolved as an adaptation to heat and later gained cultural significance. Researchers ...

africanus with those of other extinct mammals from Sterkfontein and modern African mammals, the early humans appear to have had a variable diet, but not one rich in mammalian meat. The findings ...

Africa and Asia. The researchers focused on zooarchaeological data obtained from animal remains at sites in Europe that were once inhabited by humans. "We assume that when hunting, early humans ...