The artefacts are largely made up of chipped flakes of stone - a primitive type of blade - and are believed to have been made by ancient members of the human lineage, called hominins. From our ...

Scientists have found evidence that an ancient species of human called Denisovans lived at high altitudes in Tibet. The ability to survive in such extreme environments had previously been ...

Specifically, Cann and colleagues hypothesized that the ancestress of all of modern humanity lived only 200,000 years ago, rather than more than a million years ago, when primitive humans first ...

Remains of a primitive human species known as Homo erectus have been found in Europe dating back to 1.4 million years ago. A big freeze previously unknown to science drove early humans from Europe ...

The first members of the human lineage lack many features that ... were thought to have been inherited from a common ancestor (=primitive features), implying that the earliest hominins and our ...

Ancient human fossils discovered in a cave in eastern China have traits of both primitive and modern humans – a finding that could potentially challenge the “out of Africa” theory of human ...

predating any evidence of burial practices by modern humans by a staggering 100,000 years. These remains belong to Homo naledi, a distant relative of Homo sapiens. This primitive species had a ...

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features than any other human ancestor. Ardipithecus ramidus may have walked upright. Other fossils discovered with A.

Humans, as well as all other living jawed vertebrates like sharks ... "Even though acanthothoracids are among the most primitive of all jawed vertebrates, their teeth are in some ways far more like ...