One study uses deep-sea sediment cores to trace the climatic factors that enabled or hindered hominin settlement in Europe, while another study explores the interbreeding opportunities between ...

A study published in PLOS ONE investigates how early hominins in Ethiopia, between 1.6- 1.0 million years ago, selected rocks for toolmaking, revealing their cognitive and adaptive capabilities.

In 2017, the fossilized tracks were spotted in a special lakebed region of northern Saudi Arabia. The tracks consisted of seven discrete footprints. “Here, we report hominin and non-hominin mammal ...

Who made the tools is another surprise. Along with the tools, Plummer's team found the tooth of a paranthropus, an early hominin that is not a direct ancestor of humans. That suggests that the ...

The excavated surface shows the hominin trackway along with footprints of hippos, a large bird and other animals. For the photo, scientists filled the hominin tracks and a few other footprints with ...

Severe drought caused by climate change may have led to the decline of Indonesia’s pygmy elephants and the “hobbit”-like humans who hunted them. Until about 50,000 years ago, Homo ...

With dramatically increased fossil samples and new insights into modern variation, we argue that taxonomy can be approached with more scientific rigor. We propose a hypothesis-testing approach to ...

New Insights Into the Denisovans: New Hominin Group That Interbred With Modern Day Humans Nov. 8, 2024 — Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered 'hominin' group (the ...