In a groundbreaking discovery that may rewrite the map of human prehistory, fossilised genetic evidence has revealed that ...

“The metric characteristics, shape ... That someone, it now seems, was our ancestors. Possibly Homo erectus, one of the first species to walk upright, to wield fire, and to migrate across ...

A gay man was beaten this past Tuesday night in the street in Amsterdam, and police believe that the incident was motivated by bias. The NL Times reports that two men yelled at their alleged ...

Homo Erectus This species, until recently known by a multiplicity of other names, was probably the immediate predecessor of modern man. It now seems possible that the transition took place some ...

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Pithecanthropus, now called Homo erectus, or erect man, had been discovered in Java just before the turn of the century, and in the 1920s a similar kind of early human, called Peking man ...

They named her Homo floresiensis and nicknamed her the "Hobbit," after the diminutive villagers from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. The team has since recovered bones from as many as ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation. The first published study on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and ...

The first Homo sapien outside Africa was discovered in a Greek cave. Public Domain/University of Tübingen A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of ...