To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

The earliest human ancestors weren't big meat eaters, according to new scientific research on their fossilized remains.

All human skulls bear markings that indicate the ... offering the most realistic look at our Denisovan's ancestors to-date. For more on this story, visit Natgeo.com. Today, the Harbin skull's ...

Our early human ancestors had a much greater adaptability to survive in extreme environments than previously thought ...

Human ancestors like Australopithecus – which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa – ate very little to no ...

“This method opens up exciting possibilities for understanding human evolution, and it has the potential to answer crucial questions, for example, when did our ancestors begin to incorporate ...

The finding indicates that these early human ancestors consumed a predominantly ... and increased stature—all key events in human evolution, as noted by La Vanguardia. However, the findings ...

"I think that's all starting with the Oldowan," Plummer ... an early hominin that is not a direct ancestor of humans. That suggests that the first tool making is not a human legacy, but an idea ...

New research published in Science suggests that Australopithecus, a genus of early human ancestors, primarily consumed plants, with minimal evidence of meat consumption. This study analyzed nitrogen ...

Human ancestors like Australopithecus -- which lived ... our ability to better understand diets and trophic level of all animals back into the scale of millions of years. The research provides ...