The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

A huge reason behind this was that experts thought the typical features of rainforests were not supportive of activities conducted by primitive humans. However, evidence collected from Côte d ...

Professor Lee Berger, the project's leader and Director of the Centre for Exploration of the Deep Human Journey at Wits ...

Specifically, Cann and colleagues hypothesized that the ancestress of all of modern humanity lived only 200,000 years ago, rather than more than a million years ago, when primitive humans first ...

The first members of the human lineage lack many features that ... were thought to have been inherited from a common ancestor (=primitive features), implying that the earliest hominins and our ...

Professor Jorge A. Colombo highlights how primal survival drives such as dominance and tribal instincts continue to shape human behaviour and societal structures. He argues that understanding ...

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features than any other human ancestor. Ardipithecus ramidus may have walked upright. Other fossils discovered with A.

In this model they were able to see how archaic humans lived. In order to analyze this evolution from a climate, anthropological and ecological point of view, scientists at the Institute of Basic ...

Bone fragments discovered in Spanish cave are putting a face to the earliest ancient humans to arrive in Western Europe, more than a million years ago.

The possibility has been raised that the complex language ability unique to humans emerged due to a specific genetic mutation. Although extinct primitive humans had similar anatomical structures ...