John Gurche built this model of the recently discovered Homo naledi species.National Geographic It took about a year to construct a model bust of Homo naledi and a painting of the full body ...

The species, which scholars named Homo naledi, shared characteristics with early hominins such as Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), including a wide-flaring pelvis, apelike shoulders adapted for ...

Extinct human species: how different were they from us? Well done Homo sapiens! Yes, that's us: the modern human. We avoided extinction and thrived. But this was not the case for any other archaic ...

They increasingly used pigments and ornaments to decorate their bodies. As I elaborate in my book, Homo Sapiens Rediscovered, Neanderthals adorned their bodies perhaps as competition for group ...

I can imagine such a person, living a million years or so ago in the form of Homo erectus. Perhaps she or he was too focused on perfecting an Acheulean handaxe and feeding a fragile fire to ...

It’s a ground-breaking discovery that will help us better understand who we are and how we evolved. It might also make us question what it truly is to be human. A team of scientists and ...

"The species name 'humoinsapiens' ironically sounds like Homo insapiens, and this new species is right in calling us unwise," thinks Prof. Ibrahimi. "With its actions, humankind has caused the ...

They increasingly used pigments and ornaments to decorate their bodies. As I elaborate in my book, Homo Sapiens Rediscovered, Neanderthals adorned their bodies perhaps as competition for group ...