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A primitive form of hominid thought to have died out as modern humans evolved appears to have lived among us for years, new research into an extraordinary set of fossils suggests.

But new research finds that human hands are more primitive than those of our closest primate ancestors chimpanzees. The study, published in the the journal Nature Communications, ...

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Islands in Southeast Asia were clearly important in the evolution of early humans, say scientists who have turned up 50,000-year-old remains of what they suspect is a previously unknown human species.

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"Previously, the oldest fossil attributed to the genus Homo was an upper jaw from Hadar, Ethiopia, dated to 2.35m years ago," he told BBC News. "So this new discovery pushes the human line back by ...

Researchers are forced to draw from rare artifacts, using them to make rough estimates of when certain groups of primitive humans were achieving important milestones such as art and toolmaking.

On one level, the researchers’ reconstruction confirmed what they already knew – H. naledi had incredibly small brains comparable with primitive human-like creatures called Australopithecines.

But some say primitive humans evolved into modern humans in many places around the world. Others, such as paleontologist Chris Stringer from the Museum of Natural History in London, say modern ...

Human hands may be more primitive than those of chimpanzees, more closely resembling the hands of the last common ancestor of humans and chimps, researchers say. These results suggest that since ...