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, ...

"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 ...

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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Stone tools discovered in China suggest early humans migrated more than 2 million years ago. The Week. US Edition. SUBSCRIBE & SAVE. Less than $3 per week.

The arrival of early, primitive humans on Earth during the Pleistocene period, roughly 1.8 million years ago, caused a five-fold increase in extinction rates of proboscidean species, ...

Archaeologists have unearthed evidence that the early humans were cooking and eating crab meat 90,000 years ago, according to a study published Tuesday in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology.