Remnants of fireplaces found in the Rising Star caves in South Africa suggest homo naledi, a pre-human ancestor, used fire as a tool. That’s according to an announcement made during a lecture by ...
Bigger brains may not equate to higher intelligence after all, according to a remarkable discovery about an early hominin.
When the skeletal remains of more than a dozen hominins were first uncovered in the Dinaledi chamber of South Africa’s Rising Star cave system in 2013, researchers believed they had discovered a ...
88,000-Year-Old Finger Bone Pushes Back Human Migration Dates 88,000-Year-Old Finger Bone Pushes Back Human Migration Dates 88,000-Year-Old Finger Bone Pushes Back Human Migration Dates Seven ...
Scientists have long searched for the transitional species between apelike australopithecines, such as Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), and early humans, such as Homo habilis. And now, deep in ...
The Earth has known fire for over 400 million years. The reason is simple: Life made it possible. Marine life pumped the atmosphere full of oxygen; terrestrial life lathered the crust with fuels.
Marina stood at the mouth of the Rising Star cave and looked inside. Outside, it was the rainy season in this grassland part of South Africa, home to jackals and porcupines and cobra snakes and ...
How, when and where did modern humans evolve? Nobody has all the answers, but studying rock and dirt can put the debate on firmer footing. Homo naledi had a brain less than half the size of our own.
Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, 51, searches for fossils of human ancestors—sometimes in unorthodox ways. He empowers early career scientists, makes all his data open source, and publicizes ...