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 ...

Scientists say they've found the earliest known evidence of a human presence outside Africa. Stone tools discovered in China suggest primitive humans - or a close relative - were in the region as ...

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 ...

It is believed that a remote Indonesian island was once home to an ancient human species that could still be alive today.

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 ...