A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a hominid skull, nicknamed “Dragon Head,” near Hualongdong that doesn’t fit ...

The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

The 1.75-million-year-old fossil was the first of many hominids the Leakeys, their son Richard and their associates would find in East Africa, strengthening the case that hominids indeed ...

They have encouraged scientists in the belief that they will someday fill the fossil gap all the way back to the hominid-ape divide. They have already afforded a glimpse of hominids that were so ...

had been made by some of the first upright-walking hominids. An almost unimaginable sequence of events preserved what paleontologist Ian Tattersall calls a fossil of human behavior -- prehistoric ...

Hominidae. In Evolution of African Mammals ... Geometric morphometric analyses of extant and fossil hominoid craniofacial morphology. Unpubl. Ph.D. thesis. City University of New York, New ...

gibbons as well as other fossil apes for scientists to question whether the German creature had any direct influence on hominids’ upright stance, he says. Still, the discovery of Danuvius ...

Archaeologists have discovered a collection of prehistoric animal bones in Tanzania that suggests early humans figured out how to transfer tool-making techniques "from stone to bone" 1.5 million years ...

The researchers suggested that only after using naturally sharp stones for cutting did ancient humans faced selective pressure that led them to start knapping their own stone tools.

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"The skeletons' positions resemble a fetal posture, which indicates that hominids considered death as a return to the womb", – Cai said. Cai added that ancient humans would select a sign to mark the ...