An international research team reports an unusually well-preserved Homo habilis skeleton that dates to just over 2 million ...

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Reanalysis of an infant jawbone discovered in Ethiopia confirms Homo erectus lived in the highlands 2 million years ago. Advanced imaging and dating techniques show early humans adapted to cooler, ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual ...

Fossils dredged from the Madura Strait in Indonesia reveal Homo erectus remains dating to around 140,000 years ago. The discovery shows that these early humans once inhabited the now-submerged Sunda ...