A total of five skulls – four of which have their jaws ... thus identifying their place within the genetic family tree of the ...

Researchers have traditionally used differences among fossilized remains of ancient humans to define separate species among the earliest members of our Homo genus ... new skull found in Africa ...

A massive, well-preserved skull discovered in China in the 1930s belongs to a ... and it provided very important information for us to understand the evolution of Homo as a genus,” says Xijun Ni, a ...

Caption 3D reconstruction of the fossil skull of the sub-adult early Homo from the Dmanisi site in Georgia. The green, orange and red colors represent the preserved teeth (imaged respectively with ...

These are skull casts from human evolution. Left to right: Australopithecus afarensis, Homo habilis, Homo ergaster, Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

Homo sapiens are the last surviving members of the genus Homo, every other species ... physically from modern humans with ...

Over the years, discoveries of the remains of ancient humans different to the Homo sapiens genus have slowly picked ... naledi fossils were uncovered. The skull, found in 2015, is believed to ...

Paleontologists have unearthed the oldest fossil belonging to the hominin species Homo erectus. The 2 million-year-old fossil skull, excavated over a five-year period in South Africa, suggests the ...

(More recently scientists have determined that two holes in the skull were made by an eagle ... shares enough crucial features with the genus Homo that its discoverers think it might be the ...