Homo erectus is associated with a number of firsts in its 2 million years of existence, including being the first hominin to ...

A cave in northern Greece has preserved an ancient skull for several hundred thousand years, directly attached to a wall. Its ...

Scientists suggest it may be the remains of a prehistoric hominin that walked alongside Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of ...

New genetic techniques are shedding light on a mysterious part of our family tree—ancient human relatives called the ...

Archaic humans like Homo erectus "spread like many other mammals in the Old World," Pääbo told me. "They never came to Madagascar, never to Australia. Neither did Neanderthals. It's only fully modern ...

Wu and Bae propose that the Juluren represent a unique population shaped by genetic exchanges between Asian Homo erectus, Neanderthals, and other ancient groups.

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens ’s closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest example of interbreeding between the two groups.

Researchers suggest 140,000-year-old child remains from Israel's Skhūl Cave may have belonged to a Homo sapiens-Neanderthal hybrid. Hanay via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 In 1931 ...

The inside of the skull’s frontal lobe turned out to be morphologically closer to Homo erectus than Neanderthals or Homo sapiens (though Homo erectus had a smaller brain than its two ...